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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Chronology: August 20, 1795 - January 14, 1804
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Xerox University Microfilms 300 North Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, Michigan 4B106 74-17,330 BUNDY, Nancy Annis, 1944- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, A CHRONOLOGY: AUGUST 20, 1795-JANUARY 14, 1804. University of Southern California, Ph.D., 1974 Language and Literature, modern ) University Microfilms, A X E R O X Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan I . ; .. _ . I © Copyright by NANCY ANNIS BUNDY 19714- THIS DISSERTATION HAS BEEN MICROFILMED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, A CHRONOLOGY: AUGUST 20, 1795 - JANUARY 14, 1804 by Nancy Annis Bundy A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (English) January 1974 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY PARK LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90007 This dissertation, written by under the direction of hiSAc. Dissertation Com mittee, and approved by a ll its members, has been presented to and accepted by The G raduate School, in p artia l fulfillm ent of requirements of the degree of D O C T O R O F P H IL O S O P H Y Date!f2^^axih£hJ.aL!d.y.i3.T3 DISSERTATION O , \ /J\ Chairman ! TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE.................... ii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.................................. vi INTRODUCTION ............................. I bENERAL CHRONOLOGICAL LIST ........................... 9 THE CHRONOLOGY 1795 23 1796 32 1797 72 1798 104 1799 148 1800 191 1801 241 1802 285 1803 332 1804 383 APPENDIX . .............. 387 i ii ; PREFACE < The initial idea for this project came from Dr. Max j Schulz. He gave encouragement and direction to a long-time | Interest of mine in Coleridge; he first introduced me to the! possibilities of a chronological study by acquainting me with the work of Mark Reed on Wordsworth (A Chronology; 1770-1799), and he pointed out the appropriateness and the usefulness of a complementary chronology for Coleridge. He ; has also provided me with advice and the willpower to see ! the project through. I The chronology is perhaps not complete in all re spects: there are a great number of unpublished letters to ! which I have not had access— letters of Robert Southey, of Charles Lloyd, of Tom Wedgwood, and of Charles Bellas Greenough, to name a few. Many of their letters, fortu- v ; nately, are available, but anyone concerned with complete ness would wish to see them all. As Edith Morley points out1 in "Coleridge in Germany" (Wordsworth and Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs, 1939), the unpublished letters of Greenough, especially, would be important for a Coleridge chronology. I am grateful to Carl Ketcham for recently editing the valuable letters of John Wordsworth. I wish to thank, also, the trustees of the Dove Cot- j ; I tage Library, especially Dr. Basil Willey, for permission to make a photostat of the facsimiles on file in the University I I i of Alberta, Edmonton, of certain manuscripts in the Dove Cottage Library; and Yvonne Fenton, librarian at the Uni versity of Alberta, for negotiating with Dr. Willey and for ; supplying me with the photostat. I wish to thank the Bris- ; tol University Library for a photostat of the diary of Joseph Gill, caretaker at Racedown when the Wordsworths were there; and the Carlisle City Library for supplying me with a complete list of all of the library's holdings on Coleridge. The Huntington Library in San Marino, California and the li-- brary of the University of Southern California have provided me with incalculable help; without the use of the facilities there, and the kind assistance of the librarians, this pro ject could not have been completed. It seems appropriate here to express my thanks to Mark Reed for the invaluable assistance I have received from his : Wordsworth chronology. Because of him, the part of my work involving Wordsworth as far as 1799 was in a sense already « i done. For patience, understanding and encouragement, I wish | to thank Professor Schulz and Dr. Earl V. Pullias. For careful proof-reading and for countless trips after books, paper, Xerox copies, and numberless other items, as well as : ifor putting up with long hours of typing and little conversation, I wish to thank my aunt, Miss Harriet Gates My thanks go, also, to my cousin, Joanne Fisk, who sacri ficed part of a vacation to root through stuffy library stacks for me. Especial thanks are due my brother, Dr. Stuart Bundy, without whose stimulus and example this dis sertation would never have been written. v LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AM "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." AP Anima Poetae from the unpublished notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. Hartley Coleridge (London, 1895). Aza P Azaria Pinney. Bald R. C. Bald, "Coleridge and 'The Ancient Mariner,'" Nineteenth Century Studies, ed. Herbert Davis, W. C. de Vane, and R. C. Bald (Ithaca, New York, 1940). B Critic The British Critic (London, May 1793-1843). BL Biographia Literaria, ed. J. Shawcross (Oxford, 1958). This is the edition used unless otherwise indicated. Blanshard Frances Blanshard, Portraits of Wordsworth (Ithaca, New York, 1959). BM British Museum. BNYPL Bulletin of the New York Public Library. Bristol Borrowings George Whalley, "The Bristol Library Borrowings of Southey and Coleridge, 1793-98," The Library IV (Sept 1949), 114-32. C&S in Bristol George Whalley, "Coleridge and Southey in Bristol, 1795," Review of English Studies NS I (Oct 1950), 333-40. Carlyon Clement Carlyon, Early Years and Late Reflections (London, 1836-58). 4 vols. CB Captain Bligh, Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty T1790). CBA Captain Bligh, An Answer to Certain Assertions Con tained in the Appendix to a Pamphlet Entitled 'Minutes of the Proceedings &c' (1794) . ICL The Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. | E. L. Griggs (Oxford, 1956-71). 6 vols. jClayden P. W. Clayden, Rogers and His Contemporaries j I (London, 1889). 2 vols. j ICLL E. V. Lucas, Charles Lamb and the Lloyds (London, 1898). ; |CN The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen j Coburn (New York, 1957- ). 2 vols. pub. thus far, j each in two parts. ; Cottle:Rec Joseph Cottle, Early Recollections; Chiefly j Relating to the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London, ! 1837). 2 vols. ; Cottle:Rem Joseph Cottle, Reminiscenses of Samuel Taylor ; Coleridge and Robert Southey (London, 1848). I CS Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London, 1850). 6 vols. DA Norman Fruman, Coleridge, the Damaged Archangel (New York, 1971). Daniel MLR R. W. Daniel, "The Publication of Lyrical Ballads," Modern Language Review XXXIII (1938), 406-101 DB David Beres, "A Dream, a Vision, and a Poem: a Psychof analytic Study of the Origins of 'Rime of the Ancient I Mariner,1" International Journal of Psycho-Analysis j XXXII (1951) II, 97-116. DC;DCP Dove Cottage; Dove Cottage Papers. DQ The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, ed. Davidj i Masson (Edinburgh, 1889-90). 14 vols. j IDS William Wordsworth, "Descriptive Sketches;1 . ' j DW Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of Wordsworth. DWJ The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de Selincourt (London, 1959T~- 2 vols. DWJM The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: Alfoxden and Grasmere, ed. Mary Moorman (Oxford, 1971). This edi tion is cited only when its readings or pagination differ from DWJ. vii ! Eagleston A. J. Eagleston, "Wordsworth, Coleridge, and J the Spy," Coleridge, Studies by Several Hands, ed. • Edmund Blunden and E. L. Griggs (London, 1934), 73-87. E&S Essays and Studies by Members of the English Associa- j tion (London, 1910). | EC Edith Coleridge, Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge j (London, 1848). 2 vols. EdS DW Ernest de Sdlincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, a Bio graphy (Oxford, 1933). EHC Ernest Hartley Coleridge, STC's grandson. ' I EHCC Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel, ed. E. H. Cole- j ridge (London, 1907). ’ I EJM Edith J. Morley, "Coleridge in Germany," in Wordsworth! and Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs (Princeton, 1939), j 220-36. j EKC E. K. Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Oxford, 1938)1 EKC RES E. K. Chambers, "The Date of Coleridge's 'Kubla ; Khan,'" Review of English Studies XI (1935), 78-80. EL Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de S^lincourt (Oxford, 1935). j ELG Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs (London, 1932). 2 vols. Erdman David V. Erdman, "Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the Wedgwood Fund," BNYPL LX, no. 9 (Sept 1956), 425-43; no. 10 (Oct 1956), 487-507. ES Elizabeth Schneider, Coleridge, Opium and Kubla Khan j (Chicago, 1953). j Evans and Pinney Bergan Evans and Hester Pinney, "Race- down and the Wordsworths," Review of English Studies VIII (1932), 1-18. EW William Wordsworth, "An Evening Walk." ! EY The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, the Early Years, ed. Ernest de Slllncourt, revised by i Chester L. Shaver (London, 1970). FD Joseph Farington, The Farington Diary, ed. James Greig j (London, 1923-28). 8 vols. j .................. viii _ _ _ j Friend The Friend, a Literary, Moral and Politica1 Weekly | Paper, conducted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Penrith, ! 1809-10 in numbers), ed. Barbara E. Rooke (London, 1969). i G&S William Wordsworth, "Guilt and Sorrow; or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain." GCL General Chronological List of Coleridge's Writings, below. Gill Diary A photostat in my possession of the Diary of | Joseph Gill, caretaker at Racedown, in Papers of the Pinney Family, on deposit in the Bristol University Library. Godwin (MS diary) A photostat in the possession of Dr. Max Schulz of a transcript by Dr. David Erdman of por tions of a full typescript made by Dr. Lewis Patton from a microfilm in Duke University Library's Abinger collection of William Godwin's MS diary. Godwin (Paul) C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin. His Friends and Contemporaries (London, 1876). 2 vols. GW G. Whalley, Coleridge and Sara Hutchinson and the Asra Poems (London, 1955). Hanson Lawrence Hanson, The Life of Samuel Taylor Cole ridge (London, 1938). Hazlitt William Hazlitt, "My First Acquaintance with Poets," in The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. O. Howe (London, 1930-34), XVII, 106-22. HCR Diary Diary, Reminis censes, and Corre spondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. Thomas Sadler (London, 1869). 3 vols. HD Sir Humphry Davy. IF Isabella Fenwick, notes dictated to her by Wordsworth. ILN Illustrated London News. Inq. Sp. Inquiring Spirit; a new presentation of Cole ridge from his~published and unpublished prose writings, ed. Kathleen Coburn (London and New York, 1951). John Davy The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, ed. John Davy (London, 1839) . F”vols. JDC James Dykes Campbell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London,! ! 1894). I | I I JFP, Jr. John Frederick Pinney, Jr. i ! JG James Gillman, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge j (London, 1834). Joyce Herbert Joyce, History of the British Post Office (London, 1893). JW John Wordsworth, brother of Wordsworth. I JWL The Letters of John Wordsworth, ed. Carl H. Ketcham j (Ithaca, New York, 1969). ! ■ ! L Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. E. Hartley I Coleridge (London, 1895). 2 vols. Landon RES Carol Landon, "Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the j Morning Post: An Early Version of 'The Seven Sisters,'"j Review of English Studies N. S. XI (1960), 392-402. i LB Lyrical Ballads. LB 1798 Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (Bristol and London, 1798). Unless otherwise stated, the issue I referred to is that of J. and A. Arch, London. LB 1800 Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems (London, 1800). I 2 vols. This edition is indicated for the "Preface." LB 1802 Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems j (London, 1802). 2 vols. LCL E. V. Lucas, The Life of Charles Lamb (London, 1905). I 2 vols. LCR Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of Samuel I ; Taylor Coleridge, ed. Thomas Allsop (London, 1836). ! : ' I Litchfield R. B. Litchfield, Tom Wedgwood, the First Pho- j tographer (London, 1903). j LL The Letters of Charles Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas (London, 1935) . 3 vols. | LM The Lloyd-Manning Letters, ed. Frederick L. Beaty (Bloomington, Indiana, 1957). x Lockhart John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of | Sir Walter Scott (Philadelphia, 1837). 2 vols. i i jLosh Diary MS diary of James Losh, in Tullie House Li brary, Carlisle. ! . . I LY The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Late Years, ed. Ernest de Sdlincourt (Oxford, 1939) . 3 vol's . j 1 | Mackintosh Memoirs Memoirs of Sir James Mackintosh, ed. R. J. Mackintosh (London, 1853). 2 vols. j Margoliouth H. M. Margoliouth, Wordsworth and Coleridge (Oxford, 1953). Margoliouth N&Q H. M. Margoliouth, "Wordsworth and Cole- j ridge: Dates in May and June, 1798," Notes and Queries CXCVIII (1953), 352-54. MC Coleridge1s Miscellaneous Criticism, ed. T. M. Raysor (London, 1936). ; i Mem Christopher Wordsworth, Memoirs of William Wordsworth I (London, 1936). Mem (R) The same, ed. Henry Reed (Boston, 1851). 2 vols.! This edition is cited only when its readings or pagi nation differ from Mem. MH Mary Hutchinson— became Mary Wordsworth. Minnow Minnow among Tritons: The Letters of Sara Coleridge to Thomas Poole, ed. Stephen Potter (London, 1934). j ML The Letters of Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb, ed. Gertrude A. Anderson (London, 1925). ! MM The Monthly Magazine and British Register (London, Feb 1796-1843). Moorman Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth, a Biography: The Early Years, 1770-1803 (Oxford, 1957; reprinted from corrected sheets, 1965). MP The Morning Post (London). ! MPA Edward Christian, Minutes of the Proceedings [of the j court-martial of the Bounty mutineers], with an Appen-j dix containing the full Account of the Real Causes and 1 Circumstances of that unhappy Transaction, the most ! material of which have hitherto been withheld from the j Public (1794). ; ; ■ i xi " I MRWC Mark Reed, Wordsworth; A Chronology of the Early { Years, 1770-1799 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967). MS Manuscript. j • j MS Journal A journal of STC's visit to Germany, a foolscapj MS in his holograph (intermediate between the entries in the notebooks and "Satyrane's Letters," much of it j used in letters to his wife, Poole, and Josiah Wedg- j wood. Once owned by Gabriel Wells of NY) , now in the j Berg Collection, New York Public Library. j I MW Mary Wordsworth, wife of Wordsworth. I ; i MWL The Letters of Mary Wordsworth 1800-1855, ed. Mary E. j Burton (Oxford, 1958). I MY The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, the Middle Years, ed. Ernest de SSlincourt (Oxford, 1937) 2 vols. NL New Letters of Robert Southey I, 1792-1810 (New York, 1965). ! I Paris J. A. Paris, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy (London, j 1831). 2 vols. i Paterson Paterson's Roads (London, 1799). | Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poems on Various Subjects j (Bristol, 1796, 1797; London, 18037T I Poole Mrs. Henry Sandford, Thomas Poole and His Friends | (London, 1888) . 2 vols. PPC Carl R. Woodring, Politics in the Poetry of Coleridge ; (Madison, Wisconsin^ 1961). : PREL Williiam Wordsworth, The Prelude, ed. Ernest de Selin-; court, revised by Helen Darbishire (1959), corrected by Stephen Gill (Oxford, 1970). Prel William Wordsworth, The Prelude, version of 1805, \ text of PREL. ; Prel2 William Wordsworth, The Prelude, version of 1850, text of PREL. PW The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ; ed. E. Hartley Coleridge (Oxford, 1912). 2~vols. ; t xii jPW (JDC) The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor j j Coleridge, ed. James Dykes Campbell (London, 1893) . ! ! i |Raysor T. M. Raysor, "Coleridge and 'Asra,'" Studies in j Philology XXVII (July, 1929), 305-24. j I i ;RC William Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage." ! ;Reed UTQ Mark L. Reed, "Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the j 'Plan' of the Lyrical Ballads," University of Toronto j Quarterly XXXIV (1964-65), 238-53. i 1 ! i • I ;RES J. R. MacGillivray, "An Early Poem and Letter by j Wordsworth," Review of English Studies NS V (1954), 62-66. | Rickman Orlo Williams, The Life and Letters of John Rick- | man (London, 1911). RS Robert Southey. ; ' i ;RX John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu (revised ed. ■ London, 1930). |SB Studies in Bibliography. 1 SC Sara Coleridge, wife of STC. I SH Sara Hutchinson, sister of Mary Wordsworth, close friend of STC. SHB Stanley Hutton, Bristol and Its Famous Associations (Bristol, 1907). SHL Coburn, Kathleen, The Letters of Sara Hutchinson (London, 1954). ;SL Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sibylline Leaves (London, i 1817). iSM Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman's Manual; or The : Bible the Best Guide to Political SkilT~and Foresight, j i a Lay Sermon by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London, 1816)J Smith Elsie Smith, An Estimate of Wordsworth by His Con temporaries (Oxford, 1932). Smyser, PMLA Jane W. Smyser, "Coleridge's Use of Words worth's Juvenilia," PMLA LXV (1950), 419-26. xiii SP William Wordsworth, "Guilt and Sorrow; or incidents | upon Salisbury Plain." i Studies (Blunden and Griggs) Colerigde: Studies by Several ! Hands on the Hundredth Anniversary of His Death (Lon- " don, 1934). j i i TCG T. C. Grattan, Beaten Paths (London, 1865). 2 vols. - I TLS Times Literary Supplement. j TP Thomas Poole. ; ! ‘ TT The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, i with Additional Table Talk from Allsop1 s Recollections , | etc., ed. [Henry Nelson Coleridge] (Oxford, 1917). j TW Thomas Wedgwood. i i VCL Victoria College Library, University of Toronto. Venn J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses (Cambridge, Eng- ; I land, 1922-54). Unless otherwise stated, information j from this source is taken from the article on the per- j son being discussed. W William Wordsworth. i . ; Watchman Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman (Bristol, 1796). WH William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets (London, 1847). ! William Bartram Travels William Bartram, Travels through j North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and.West i Florida, The Cherokee Country, The extensive Terri tories of the Museogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws, containing an Account of the j Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Em- , beHished with Copperplates (Philadelphia, 1791). Wise Thomas J. Wise, A Bibliography of Samuel Taylor ColeJ ridge (London, 1913). WL Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, ed. W. J. Warter (London^ 1856) . 4 vols. xiv Woof SB R. S. Woof, "Wordsworth's Poetry and Stuart's Newspapers', 1797-1803," Studies in Bibliography XV (1962), 149-89. Woof UTQ R. S. Woof, "Coleridge and Thomasina Dennis," | University of Toronto Quarterly XXXII (1962-63), 36-54 Wordsworth and Coleridge Wordsworth and Coleridge: Studies in Honor of George McLean Harper, ed. E. L. Griggs (Princeton, 1939) . i WPW The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Ernest de SSlincourt and Helen Darbishire (Oxford, 1940-49) . 5 vols. WSH G. W. Meyer, "Wordsworth and the Spy Hunt," American Scholar XX (Winter 1950-51), 50-56. WTM A Memoir of the Life and Writings of William Taylor of Norwich, ed. J. W. Robberds (London, 1843) . 2 vols xv | INTRODUCTION I Mark Reed, in his Wordsworth: A Chronology of the i Early Years, has:;adequately discussed the rationale for a i' chronology such as this. The obvious worth of his work should make lengthy defense of the idea of a chronology unnecessary. This chronology gathers together in organized fashion i the primary information relating to the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It enables the reader to discover at a glance where Coleridge was and what he was doing, and sometimes even thinking, at any point within the time period covered by the chronology. In one sense a chrono logy is similar to a biography, except that it minimizes the forming of generalizations, leaving the reader to draw his own conclusions from the facts presented. The reader is aided in this task by the cross references, which link together significant, related events. Unlike a biography also, a chronology provides easy access to the information covered, without requiring the reader to sort through moun tains of unrelated material for the fact he is seeking. The main purpose of this chronology, however, is to make readily available the most important primary and 1 secondary sources dealing with Coleridge's poetry. The works composed in any given year are listed within the chro nology itself and in the General Chronological List at the j beginning of the work. Cross listings in the General Chro nological List will enable the reader to trace the various times a work is mentioned throughout the chronology. i Selectivity has, of course, been necessary. I have not attempted to deal systematically with all of Coleridge's! i j voluminous reading; I have not recounted each notebook : j entry, except those that appear in some form in Coleridge's j : ! published poetry (to do so would be essentially to repeat j Kathleen Coburn's monumental work of editing the notebooks);! I nor have I kept detailed track of the activities and thoughts of Coleridge's friends, except as they seem to relate di- ! rectly to him. I have tried to include enough from the letters and notebooks of Coleridge and others to cover the events of his life, and I have, of course, covered the com- | position of the poetry in detail, as indicated above. Other! ; j entries attempt to give a composite picture of Coleridge as j a man. I have included references to his varied interests, ! ; 1 as recounted above; to his friendships and quarrels; to his ! marital problems and his relationship with Sarah Hutchinson;! ; • i to his health and related opium-taking; and even, though not! i systematically, to many of his aborted literary projects andj some of his prose writings for the Morning Post, in the hope! i of completing the picture of this many-sided, though j r~ '......... '....: ..... ” .3 damaged, genius. Certain specific areas have not been given separate entries each time a given subject occurs: I have : . . 1 instead made a separate entry for the first occurrence of J : | that subject only, then listed subsequent occurrences withinj ■ I that entry, indicating only the sources in which they are i found. The areas covered in this way are indicated in the j text. ! ; | i Thus the chronology and what it does. But why a chro-j |. nology of Coleridge? Where a man's life has had anything at all to do with his work, the value of a chronology as an aidj ; \ in problems of interpretation should be self-evident. As | Reed says, however, the content of the chronology must be j adapted to the needs of the individual subject, and it is byj ■ j no means evident with Coleridge, as it is with Wordsworth, | j that his personal experience is closely related to the poetry . i for which he is most famous? critics are, in fact, fond of j I ! pointing out just how different that poetry is from any- j thing else Coleridge ever wrote, and how distant it is from ! the life he lived. Nevertheless, it is true that the rest j of Coleridge's poetry is closely related to his life ("The j Eolian Harp,'.! "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison") , and maybe j we can learn something about the creative process through j . i the very disparity that becomes apparent between the life Coleridge was living in 1797-99 and "The Ancient Mariner," ; j "Christabel," and "Kubla Khan." i I 1 There may also be other reasons for a Coleridge chro nology besides the light it throws on the creation of his poetry. Walter Jackson Bate has recently pointed out (Cole-, i . i ridge, London, 1969) that Coleridge was not primarily, or even, from his own viewpoint, most importantly, a poet. He j ; j had many other interests— some of them, of course, only j | passing— political reform, agriculture, chemistry, religion,j and, primarily, philosophy; and he was many other things besides a poet: social dreamer, temporary farmer, itinerant; j i preacher, metaphysician, and reluctant journalist, in sup port of family responsibilities that must have taken him ! somewhat by surprise. Coleridge, indeed, had so many other j i interests that poetry was not always for him the overriding i concern that many have assumed. j This is not at all to say that Coleridge did not take j poetry seriously. He took it very seriously indeed— but | : i then, he took seriously everything in which he had any in terest at all. It is only in comparison with the value he placed on other interests, such as his projected great meta-| I physical work, that the value he placed on poetry seems to j ; I be relatively less; and the amount of time during which he i was interested in poetry was much less in quantity than the J i time during which he was primarily interested in other j things. To say this is not to depreciate his poetic achieved • ; i ment, but to make it stand out even more, as we see what was1 ; i Accomplished by one whose principal concern was not the ! writing of poetry. For someone interested, therefore, in ! i | the varied aspects of Coleridge as a person, in his creative ! ’ i \ i development, or in the individual works themselves, this j ! ■ I i i chronology has obvious value, providing as it does a ready i • reference to the various threads of his life and work. 1 I . The reader may perhaps wonder why I have chosen August 20, 1795 to January 14, 1804 as the boundary dates j for the chronology. The answer is simple: these dates mark; the period of Coleridge's most intense association with Wordsworth, and also the time of Coleridge's own most in tense poetic activity. It is not merely a coincidence that . these two events occurred simultaneously. Wordsworth and Coleridge are generally assumed to have influenced each ; t Other. There is, of course, debate over the degree and kind of influence: Mary Moorman, for example, takes for granted j ; i that Coleridge supplied Wordsworth with inspiration and ideas, while Fruman (Coleridge: The Damaged Archangel)argues; On the other side that Wordsworth— or someone else— supplied | | Coleridge with material and inspiration for almost every- i thing he wrote. Nevertheless, it seems safe to assume that,; at least to some degree, the influence was mutual. Both men '• ' i certainly supplied each other with a kind of moral support ; I during times of depression: during the early time of their j i ; .acquaintance, Coleridge gave support and encouragement to Wordsworth (see 1795:31), and'later— and more continuously— I Wordsworth performed the same office for Coleridge (see j 1797:32 and n). | I As far as poetic influence, it can hardly be doubted |that Coleridge's hero-worship provided Wordsworth with a de- i ’ I igree of inspiration and incentive. (This writer, at least, j ! I Wishes that Wordsworth had done the same for Coleridge.) j : . ! This study will not attempt to show exactly which ideas in | the Wordsworth and Coleridge canons belong to which poet. j Nonetheless, it seems to me arguable that what interest Coleridge had in nature as a subject for poetry was at least ; j .augmented by his association with Wordsworth (and his in- i terest was never as great as Wordsworth's, but it did pro- * * • • i duce "Lime-Tree Bower" and "Frost at Midnight"), and The j Prelude might not have been written without Coleridge. (Wordsworth did not dedicate the work to him for nothing.) j Their rambles together through the Quantock Hills, and later! in the Lake District, must have provided each of them with j much of the inspiration necessary to produce his best work, j even though it is not possible to say precisely which poems ; i pf each would not have been written without the other. The j : j period that deals with this association must be considered j Worthy of close scrutiny, and this I have attempted to give j ; I it in this chronology. I have generally tried to give the earliest surviving I source for each piece of information included, as well as important subsequent references in Coleridge's own writings, and secondary references that give background material or discuss a particular problem in question. Following the i i lead of Mark Reed, I have made no attempt to discuss thor oughly previous scholarly errors on a given point, except where they have seemed especially significant. Where it is impossible to determine the truth exactly, I have tried to present the varying opinions as clearly as possible, and to suggest where I think the truth possibly lies (for instance, concerning the composition dates of "Kubla Khan"). It has, in fact, been a central purpose to include discussions of problems in determining significant dates. Each entry begins with the probable dates of that entry, followed by a notation of the event in question, a reference to the sources of the evidence for it— including occasional secondary materials— and appropriate cross re ferences. Discussion of the analysis that led to a given conclusion is reserved for the footnotes, or, occasionally, the appendix. Aware that in one sense I am writing a complement to Reed's chronology of Wordsworth, I have attempted to follow his stylistic conventions as closely as possible, so that the reader may turn from one to the other without learning a new system. 1. As in Reed, I have used square brackets to indi cate any degree of editorial interpretation in the entry. i Where any reasonable doubt is possible in the accuracy of the source, or where any great degree of editorial organization or comment has been required, I have placed | : \ square brackets around both the entry and its dates. The | i ! brackets have usually been omitted in the notes and the j i ■ | appendix. j 2. "Probably," "perhaps," and "possibly" indicate de-j creasing degrees of probability of a date or entry. Other phrases have occasionally been used also, when the need has j arisen. j 3. Periods of time. A dash between two dates indi- : ' ■ ' ! cates the time-boundaries of the events discussed in the i > ) ■ : S entry. "Between and and" indicates a day or other j limited period definable only as falling between two other j dates. A date followed by a parenthetically enclosed dash and date indicates that an event begins at the first date and is probably terminated at the second— for instance, a | | I journey, or a period of residence at a particular place. j • i Dates separated by a comma indicate different possible I ; I i i datings for the same event; dates separated by a semi-colon j : i indicate distinct but related events discussed in the same j i entry. Parenthetical material should be self-explanatory. j 4. Symbols. The symbol # followed by a number indi- | ; | cates a letter of a notebook entry number; a number preceded by no such sign indicates a page number. A date followed byj a colon and a number (i.e., 1796:15) refers the reader to | that year and entry number in the chronology. j GENERAL CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF COLERIDGE'S POETRY With the Dates of First Publication 1. "The Eolian Harp" (PW I, 100; PW II, 1021) [Possibly written Aug 20, 1795, as claimed by STC, al- j though it speaks of his life at Clevedon with SC, and wouldj therefore seem to suggest a date of composition after Oct 4, the date of his marriage.] (See DA 442, n 52; j 1795:2; 1796:87) j Pub 1796 Poems. j 2. "To the Author of Poems" (Joseph Cottle; PW I, 102-04) | [Written in 1795’ ,] before its publication in Sept. ! (See 1795:5; 1796:37) i Pub anonymously in Bristol Sept 1795. j t 3. "Lines Written at Shurton Bars" (PW I, 96-100) ; [Written Sept 1795, probably during STC's trip to I Nether Stowey.] (See 1795:7) i Pub 1796 Poems. | 4. "The Silver Thimble" (PW I, 104-06) [Composed shortly after Cottle's Oct 7-8, 1795 visit to! STC, SC at Clevedon.] (See 1795:18n; 1796:37) i Pub 1796 Poems. 5. "Religious Musings" (PW I, 108-25) | [The poem may have been started on Dec 24, 1794, the | date STC assigned to it,] but it was still unfinished by [Oct 1795] when STC wrote Cottle about it, and by early Mar 1796 it was just completed. (See 1795:20,21,41; i 1796:44,92) ! Pub 1796 Poems. |6. "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement" i (PW I, 106-08) j [Probably written mid-late Oct 1795, probably after j i Oct 8, J the last date that STC, SC are known to be at the j IClevedon cottage. (See 1795:25; 1796:149) j : t ! Pub MM II (Oct 1795), 712. ! . i j j 7. "The Destiny of Nations" (PW I, 131-47) j [Date of composition uncertain. Probably the 255 linesj included in RS's Joan of Arc (pub 1796) were written in 1795 (see CN I 54 & n) . EHC says that "the greater part of! the remaining 212 lines were written in 1796."] (See PW.I,! 1131 n 1; 1795:40,42c; 1796:87,90,140a,161,172e,g; 189,190; ! 11797:5,12,13,16,18,46; 1798:47) Pub in its entirety in Sibylline Leaves, 1817. ;8. "Ver Perpetuum" (PW I, 148) [Composed 1796, before Mar 25.] (See 1796:58,59) i Pub The Watchman IV, Mar 25, 1796. 9. "On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796" (PW I, 148-49) [Composed c Feb 1, 1796.] (See 1796:24,67) Pub The Watchman IV, Apr 11, 1796. 10. "To a Primrose" (PW I, 149-50) [Written before Apr 27, 1796.] (See 1796:73,74) Pub The Watchman VIII, Apr 27, 1796. 11. Poems on Various Subjects. (See 1795:21,34; 1796 : 2c,8,33,37,55,57 ,60, 61,63,72,78, i 84,87,91,105,110; 1797:6) Pub Apr 16, 1796. 12. "Verses Addressed to J. Horne Tooke" (PW I, 150-51) [Written on or shortly after June 28, 1796, by June 30.] (See 1796:5a,7,98,100) Pub PW (JDC). j 13. "On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life" (PW I, 152) j [Written before June 30, 1796.] (See 1796:5b,6,100,129; 150) Pub MM Sept 1796, II, 647. 11 14. "The Raven" (PW I, 169-71) i [Probably written 1796 or before Feb 5, 1797.] (See IDA, 545 n 2; 1796:4; 1798:64) | I Pub MP Mar 10, 1798. ! ; I i 15. "To a Young Friend on His Proposing to Domesticate with Ithe Author" (PW I, 155-57) ' [Written in 1796, probably after Sept 17.] (See 1796: | 139) j Pub 1797 Poems. j 16. "Sonnet on Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the j Birth of a Son" (PW I, 152-53) Written Sept 20, 1796. (See 1796:137,169) Pub "Biographical Supplement" to BL, 1847, 11,379. 17. "Sonnet Composed on a Journey Homeward" (PW I, 153) Written Sept 20, 1796. (See 1796:137,169,190) I i I Pub 1797 Poems. 18. "Sonnet: To a Friend Who Asked, How I Felt When the j Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me" (PW I, 154) ; Written between Sept 20 and Nov 1, 1796. (See 1796: i 137,169) Pub 1797 Poems. 19. "Sonnet: To Charles Lloyd" (PW I, 155) Written 1796,, [probably after Sept.] (See 1796:148) Pub in Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer, 1796. 20. "Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune" (PW I, 157-58) I Written after Sept 20 and before Dec 11, 1796. (See 11795:41; 1796:138,186,187,190) i . i : t Pub Cambridge Intelligencer Dec 17, 1796. I . ! 21. "Ode to the Departing Year" (PW I, 160-68) Written 1796, [possibly begun as early as c Sept 22- ! Oct 12}, certainly by Dec 24; completed Dec 26. (See 1795: j ;41; 1796:140b,c,d,f,160,172a,h,i,j,178,193,194,196; CL I j #167; PW I, 160 nl; David V. Erdman, "Unrecorded Coleridge j iVariants," SB [1958], 150. See also Coleridge1s Poems, \ I Facsimile Reproduction of the Proofs and MSS of Some of the | !Poems, eds. J. D. Campbell and W. H. Whiti [Westminster, ! England, 1899], 87,98; and PW I, 160 nl. For further re- I ferences, see 179 7 : 4 , 6,16.) _ _ _ J f ...".................... ^ ...........'.... 12 122. "To a Friend Who Had Declared His Intention of Writing No More Poetry" (PW I, 158-59) j Written after Sept 27 and before Dec 17, 1796. (See 11796:147,190) Pub 1796 in a Bristol newspaper in aid of a subscrip- | tion for the family of Robert Burns. (EHC n, PW I, 158) j ; i 23. Osorio (Remorse) | Written after Feb 4, 1797; completed in its first form; by Oct 14, 1797. (See 1795:42b,42c; 1796:41,172b; 1797:10, J 11,24,28,40,47,51,52,53,54,55,61a,61b,91,92,93,96,97,105, I 106,109,111,120,124,125,136b; 1798:41,69,131; 1800:126,128, j 129,134,202; 1801:4,115) j i The first 30 lines of V. 1. of Remorse pub LB 1798 as j "The Dungeon" (PW I, 185). Lines from Osorio Act IV pub I LB 1798 as "The Foster Mother's Tale" (PW I, 182-84). | Remorse pub London, 1813; Osorio pub London, 1873. ! 24. "To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theater" (PW I, 171-72) | Written 1797, before Mar 10. (See 1797:23,24,128) Pub MP Dec 7, 1797. 25. "To an Unfortunate Woman" (PW I, 172-73) Written 1797, before Mar 10. (See 1797:23) Pub 1797 Poems. 26. "To the Rev. George Coleridge" (PW I, 173-75) Written May 26, 1797. (See 1797:42) j Pub as the dedication to the 1797 Poems. 27. "On the Christening of a Friend's Child" (PW I, 176-77) ; [Written 1797, probably in late May.] (See 1797:43) I Pub Supplement to the 1797 Poems. . .1 28. "Translation of a Latin Inscription by the Rev. W. L. j Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church" (PW I, 177) | [Written 1797] (EHC dating). (See 1797:44) j i Pub Literary Remains, 1836, 1,50. j 29. "The Three Graves" (PW I, 267-84) j I [Possibly begun as early as between June 4 and sometime |in July 1797, after W gives his version of it to STC (see 1797:48,49). He is possibly still working on it c Apr 8, 1798.] (See 1797:48,49. Cf. 11. 25.5,-58 with DWJ I, 13, Mar 20,24; DWJ I, 14, Apr 6,8. See also 1798:94; 1800:88) ! Parts III & IV pub The Friend, VI, Sept 21, 1809; i Parts I & II pub PW (JDC). j i | ;30. "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (PW I, 178-81) j [Written between probably c July 7 and c July 17, j 1797.] (See 1797:67,72; 1800:151; 1800:163) j i Pub 1800 Annual Anthology. : | 31. Poems on Various Subjects. i (See 1796:2c,66,83,161,162,179,189; 1797:5,19,20,24,26,* ;29,36,38,40,41,42,52,55,58,65,68,113) j ; i Pub [perhaps Oct 28, 1797.] (See 1797:41n) 32. "Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Wri- | ters" (Nehemiah Higginbottom Sonnets: PW I, 209-11) I [Written 1797, before or during early Nov, by Nov 20.] (See BL I, 17-19; 1797:115,120) j Pub MM Nov 1797. j 33. "Kubla Khan" (PW I, 295-98) I [Possibly written or at least begun early Nov 1797, on j a walking trip with W, DW to Lynton (see 1797:116 & n); or possibly written as late as 1799 (see ES 173) . The summer I Of 1798 also remains a possibility (see EHC n2, PW I, 295; DA 293). Fruman suggests that STC may have an experience in 1797 that results in the writing of the poem as late as 1799 ;(see DA ch. 22, 538 n8); it may therefore be not truly a j dream composition.] (See 1796:3,39,172d; 1797:62c,116 & n; j 1798:124) ' : t Pub 1816 with "Christabel" and "The Pains of Sleep." : . ‘ 34. "The Wanderings of Cain" (PW I, 285-92) [Probably begun early Nov 1797 as a cooperative effort I between W and STC; STC, however, completes it alone, pro- j bably in the spring or summer of 1798.] (See EHC headnote, i PW I, 285; JDC 75; 1797:117) j Pub 1828 Poems. <35. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (PW I, 186-209) ! [Probably begun between Nov 12 and 20, 1797;] completed by Mar 23, 1798. (See 1795:42a,d,6; 1796:3,101; 1797:62a, 1119,136d; 1798:7,79,123; 1799:58,64; 1800:129) I Pub 1798 LB. I i 36. "Lewti" (PW I, 253-56) j [Written: probably after Dec 21-31, 1797 and completed i before Apr 13, 1798.] (See 1797:136b,136c,138; 1798:98; i 1800:126,151,163) j Pub MP Apr 13, 1798. | ; i 37. "Lines to W. L." (PW I, 236) I [Written 1797 (EHC date).] (See 1797:138) | Pub 1800 Annual Anthology. 38. "Parliamentary Oscillators" (PW I, 211-13) j [Written probably early Jan 1798,] before Jan 6. (See 1798:4) Pub Cambridge Intelligencer Jan 6, 1798. 39. "Fire, Famine and Slaughter" (PW I, 237-40) [Written probably early Jan 1798,] before Jan 8. (See - 1798:8,9) i Pub MP Jan 8, 1798. 40. "Frost at Midnight" (PW I, 240-42) [Written Feb 1798.] (See 1797:127; 1798:35,150,152, 160; 1799:187) Pub after between Aug 10 and 25, 1798, with "France an ; Ode" and "Fears in Solitude," in a quarto pamphlet "printed j by Johnson in St. Paul's Churchyard." (EHC headnote, PW I, | 240) 41. "France: an Ode" (PW I, 243-47) [Written Feb 1798.] (See 1798:35,99,150,152,160; 1799:187) Pub MP Apr 16, 1798. 42. "The Old Man of the Alps" (PW I, 248-51) j [Written 1798,] before Mar 8. (See 1798:61,62) j Pub MP Mar 8, 1798. I" .. : ... 15 i ■ 43. "Christabel" Part I (PW I, 213-26) ! [Perhaps begun, c Mar 23, 1798; completed probably I 'shortly after.] (See 1796:39,101,172b; 1797:136b; 1798:27, ; 34,46,60,80; 1799:127,130,155,187; 1800:31,195,196,198) | Pub 1816 with "Kubla Khan" and "The Pains of Sleep." 44. "To a Young Lady" (PW I, 252) j Written Mar 31, 1798. (See 1798:85; 1799:181) ' ; i Pub MP Dec 9, 1799. i ! 45. "The Nightingale" (PW I, 264) [Written Apr 1798.] (See 1796:172i; 1797:62b; 1798:86,: ;87; 1798:114; 1799:54; 1800:126) j Pub 1798 LB. 46. "To— " (PW I, 292) [Written possibly Apr 1798, at least by the end of sum mer.] (JDC 75.) (See 1798:87) Pub 1836 Literary Remains. 47. "The Ballad of the Dark Ladie" (PW I, 291-95) [Written possibly Apr 1798, at least by the end of sum-; mer.) (JDC 75.) (See 1798:87,166) Pub 1834 Poems. 48. "Fears in Solitude" (PW I, 256-63) Written Apr 20, 1798. (See 1796:140e,172f; 1797:62d; : 1798:101,150,152,160; 1799:187,192) Pub in 1798, after between Aug 10 and 25, with "France: an Ode" and "Frost at Midnight," in a quarto pamphlet "printed by J. Johnson in St. Paul's churchyard." (EHC n, PW I, 256) 49. "Recantation" (PW I, 299-303) [Written 1798, before July 30.] (See 1798:145,146; 1799:50) Pub MP July 30, 1798. 50. Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems First pub in Bristol [between Sept 5 and 21, 1798]. (See 1797:118; 1798:152,153,154,155,156,160,175,176,192,210; 1799:2,4,34,47,58,64,74,84,85,93,145,171.) 51. "Something Childish But Very Natural" (PW I, 313) ! j [Written between Sept 30, 1798 and Feb 12, 1799, when j STC was at Ratzeburg.] (See 1798:172; 1799:39) Pub 1800 Annual Anthology. ; ' ‘ 52. "Hexameters" (PW I, 304-05) j IWritten probably early Dec 1798.3 (See 1798:173, 206,j 207) j : i Pub Mem 1, 139-41. j 53. All of the following were written [perhaps between I Feb 12, 1799, when STC arrived in Gottingen, and June 24, ! when he left Gottingen for home.] a. "Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical ; Paraphrase of the Gospel" (PW I, 306) (See 1799 :11) ; I Pub as a footnote to BL ch. X, 1817, I, 203-04. b. "Catullian Hendecasyllables" (PW I, 307) (See I 1799:11) ! Pub 1834 Poems. c. "The Homeric Hexamater" (PW I, 307)1 (See 1799:11 ) | d. "The Ovidian Elegiac Metre" (PW I, 308) (See j 1799:11) ; i e. "On a Cataract" (PW I, 30 8-09) (See 1799:11) Pub 1834 Poems. j f. "Tell's Birth-Place" (PW I, 309-10) (See 1799:11)* Pub 1817 Sibylline Leaves. g. "The British Stripling's War Song" (PW I, 317-18) ! (See 1799:11) I ; h. "Names [from Lessing]" (PW I, 318-19) (See j 1799:11) ! 54. "On an Infant" (PW I, 312) (See 1799:36) ! [Written before Apr 8,- 1799.] Pub 1834 Poems. •1-All entries followed only by a reference to PW and by no other source of publication indicate that the work first appeared in PW. ;55. "Homesick" (PW I, 314) Written at Gottingen, May 5, 1799. (See 1799:41,47) Pub 1800 Annual Anthology. ■56. "Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest" (PW I, 315-16) (See 1799:47,51,110) Pub MP Sept 13, 1799. 57. "The Devil's Thoughts" (PW I, 319-23) Written as a joint project by RS and STC [between c Aug 12 or 13 and c Aug 26 or 27, 1799.] (See 1799:90,100) Pub MP Sept 6, 1799. 58. "Lines Composed in a Concert-Room" (PW I, 324-25) [Composed perhaps 1799, possibly after Aug 15,] cer tainly before Sept 24. (See PW I, 324 nl; 1799:91,114) Pub MP Sept 24, 1799. 59. "Westphalian Song" (PW I, 326) [Composed possibly 1799] (EHC date). (See 1799:92; 1802:194) Pub MP Sept 27, 1802. '60. "Mahomet" (PW I, 329-30) Composed between c Sept 1 and Sept 25, 1799. (See 1799:97,98,101,115,127,130) Pub 1834 Poems. 61. "Hexameters" (PW I, 326) Written 1799, before Sept 29. (See 1799:116,118) 62. "Hymn to the Earth" (PW I, 327-29) [Probably composed c Sept 1799, c the same time as "Hexameters."] (See 1799:117) Pub Friendship1s Offering, 1834, pp. 165-67. 63. "Love" (PW I, 330-35) Written between Nov 24 and Dec 1, 1799. (See 1796:1; 1799:168,191; 1800:127; 1801:48) Pub MP Dec 21, 1799, as the "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie" (see PW I, 330 nl). 18 64. "Ode to Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire" (PW I, 335-38) ' Written late 1799, before Dec 24. (See 1799:193,194, ;201; 1800:163) Pub MP Dec 24, 1799. ! ,65. "A Christmas Carol" (PW I, 338-40) Written late 1799, before Dec 25. (See 1799:196,197, 201; 1800:4) i Pub MP Dec 25, 1799. j i i 66. Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems j Pub in Bristol [c Jan 25, 1801]. (See 1800:84,89,128, ! 129,136,138,141,145,146,156,157,163,166,181,186,193,212,215,; 216,222,226,227,233,243,269,274,276,279,281,282; 1801:2,6,9j 10,14,15,16,21,29,32,34,39,40,41,50,51,55,62,66; 1802:145, | 152) J 67. "Talleyrand to Lord Grenville" (PW I, 340-44) ! [Written early 1800,] before Jan 10. (See 1800:11,12) j i Pub MP Jan 10, 1800. j 68. "Christabel" Part II (PW I, 227-36) [Probably composed c Aug 15-31, 1800.] It is certainly complete by Oct 4. (See 1800:81,86,88,166,180,209,210,213, ' 215,216,217,219,222,225,226,227,233,240,281; 1801:4,11,51, 58,67,110; 1802:67,77,84; 1803:187) Pub 1816 with "Kubla Khan" and "The Pains of Sleep." 69. "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" (PW I, 345) ! [Written perhaps shortly before,] certainly by Aug 28, j 1800. (See 1800:176) ■ Pub Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine XI (Jan 1822), 12. ! ; ' j 70. "The Keepsake" (PW I, 345-46) [Written possibly as early as 1800, possibly Aug or Sept,] certainly before Sept 17, 1802. (See 1800:80,177, 288d; 1802:185) Pub MP Sept 17, 1802. j i 71. "Alcaeus to Sappho'!; (PW I, 353) [Written on or shortly before Oct 7, 1800.] (See 1800:218,256) Pub MP Nov 24, 1800. i r ~ " .......... '... ' ...... .............................. .. ... ..... ..." ' i 9 i > . ;72- "The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone" (PW I, 353-55) I [Written c, perhaps shortly before, Oct 9, 1800.] (See 11799: 6b; 1800:219,265) ! Pub MP Dec 4, 1800. j i ' ! i73. "Inscription for a Seat by the Road-Side Half-Way up a j Steep Hill Facing South" (PW I, 349-50) [Probably written between Oct 10 and 20, 1800,] cer tainly by Oct 21. (See 1800:221,231) I Pub MP Oct 21, 1800. 74. "The Mad Monk" (PW I, 347-49) j [Written 1800, c] and certainly before Oct 13. (See i 1800:223,224) Pub MP Oct 13, 1800. S 75. "A Thought Suggested by a View" (PW I, 347) j [Perhaps written in the autumn of 1800, perhaps c Oct 13.] (See 1800:229) Pub The Amulet, 1833. 76. "To a Snow-Drop" (PW I, 356-58) [Written late Oct 1800.] (See 1800:236) Pub PWC (JDC)* j 77. The Triumph of Loyalty (First publication PW I, 558-71)j [Begun and left unfinished late autumn 1800.] (See 1800:238,269,288a; 1802:27n) "The Night Scene," pub Sibylline Leaves, 1817. (PW I, i 421-23) | 78. "A Stranger Minstrel" (PW I, 350-52) [Probably written Nov 1800.] (See 1800:211,239) Pub Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson (1801) IV, 141. 79. [The following can be dated only as closely as 1801-02 j (but see 1802:87):] ! ; ! a. "A Day-Dream" (PW I, 385-86) (See 1801:1a,145:c, ; 47; 1802:87) ! i Pub 1828 Bijou. j |80. "Conclusion to Part II of 'Christabel' " (PW I, 235—36)! I [Probably composed shortly before May 6, 1801.] (See ! '1797:62b; 1801:83) I | . s 81. The following two poems were written [probably 1801 I jsummer or fall, during or after STC's visit to the Hutchin-! Isons July 16 or 17— Aug 23]: i .. I a. "To Asra" (PW I, 361-62) (See 1801:113) j ' Pub PW (JDC). * | b. "Love's Sanctuary" (PW I, 362) (See 1801:113) Pub PW (JDC). 82. "On Revisiting the Sea-Shore" (PW I, 359-60) I Written between Aug 1 and 15, 1801. (See 1801:124,130,! 147) i i Pub MP Sept 15, 1801. 83. "Ode to Tranquillity" (PW I, 360-61) Written 1801, [probably after STC's July-Aug visit to the Hutchinsons,] certainly before Dec 4. (See 1801:139, 212; 1803:168) Pub MP Dec 4, 1801. 84. "The Wills of the Wisp" (PW II, 979-80) [Written before Dec 1, 1801.] (See 1801:173,209) i Pub MP Dec 1, 1801. 85. "Dejection: An Ode" (PW I, 362-68) [Written Apr 4, 1802, or possibly shortly before, after- Mar 13.] (See 1800:232; 1802:72,82,93,147,199,121) Pub MP Oct 4, 1802. !86. [The following two poems were perhaps written shortly ; before May 6, 1802:] a. "Answer to a Child's Question" (PW I, 386) (See 1802:95,96,209,212; 1803:168) Pub MP Oct 16, 1802. I i b. "The Day-Dream: From an Emigrant to His Absent I Wife" (PW I, 386-87) (See 1802:17,95,96,211,212) Pub MP Oct 19, 1802......... . ......... 187. Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, pub. London in the summer of 1802. (T. J. Wise, Two Lake Poets | [London, 1927], 10.) (See 1802:130) I 1 88. "Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouhi (PW I, 376-80) j [Written perhaps Aug 5, 1802,] certainly before Sept H|. (See 1802:157,181,182,202; 1803:168) | j Pub MP Sept 11, 1802. 89. "An Ode to the Rain" (PW I, 382-84) j [Possibly written shortly after Aug 9, 1802, "on the j morning after the unexpected arrival of Charles and Mary ;Lamb at Greta Hall" (EHC n2, PW I, 382-83),] certainly be-I fore Oct 7. (See 1802:162,201) . i Pub MP Oct 7 (?), 1&02. ! j 90. "The Picture" (PW I, 369-74) [Written 1802, before Sept 6.] (See 1801:145c; 1802:176,177,178) | Pub MP Sept 6, 1802. j 91. "To Matilda Betham from a Stranger" (PW I, 374-76) j Written Sept 9, 1802. (See 1802:179) "First pripted in a 'privately printed autobiographi cal sketch of Miss Matilda Betham,1 preserved in a volume of tracts arranged and bound up by Southey, now in the j Forster Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum." (EHC nl, PW I, 374-75) i 92. "The Good, Great Man" (PW I, 381) [Written 1802, before Sept 23.] (See 1802:190,191) j Pub MP Sept 23, 1802. j 93. "Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath" (PW I, 381—82) | [Written 1802, before Sept 24.] (See 1801:145b; 1802:192,193) j Pub MP Sept 24, 1802. i j 94. Poems on Various Subjects j [Appears between Aug 15 and Sept 15, 1803, while STC j is touring Scotland with the W's.] Lamb sees it through the press. (See 1798:59; 1801:110,117; 1803:81,124) j 95. "The Pains of Sleep" (PW I, 389) [Written perhaps shortly before Sept 11, 1803.] (See !1803:153,179) Pub with "Christabel" in 1816. 96. "Epitaph on Himself" (PW II, 970) [Possibly composed at night on Sept 13, 1803, while STC dreams he is dying.] (See 1803:157,161) Pub Cottle:Rem 467. CHRONOLOGY, AUG 20, 1795-JAN 14, 1804 1795 1. Aug 20 STC rents a honeymoon cottage in Clevedon, Somerset, on j the Bristol Channel. (C&S in Bristol, 339.) 2. [1795, possibly Aug 20, more probably after Oct 4] STC writes "The Eolian Harp." (PW I, 100; GCL 1.) 3. [Probably between Aug 21 and Sept 1, or probably by Sept 26] [STC, living at 25 College Street, Bristol, meets W, on W's visit to John Pinney there. RS may meet W at the same time; if so, the meeting more likely takes place in late Aug than toward the end of W's visit (Sept 26) . STC perhaps hears W read "Salisbury Plain."] (EY #50,54,57; LY #1584; j FD VI, 36; Moorman I, 270-71. On the SP reading, see 1796:104 and n; BL I, 58; CN I tten.)1 •*-"The problem of when precisely [STC met W] cannot be solved on the basis of present evidence: Mrs. Moorman notes that their acquaintance may have begun 'in a lodgings,' or at a political society meeting (see LY 1263; FD VI, 36). It: is possible but not likely that the political society met in someone's lodgings; it is more possible that [STC was heard; and seen by W] at a meeting without actually making his ac-j quaintance there. W's late, uncertain memory was that he 'saw' STC, Southey and Edith [Fricker] (soon to be Mrs. ! Southey) for the first time all together at the lodgings just mentioned. While the length of STC's absence from ; Bristol in early Sept is not clear beyond the facts that he ! was probably at Stowey 12 Sept and certainly on 19 Sept, | Mrs. Moorman's conclusion, that the meeting took place close :to the time of W's departure for Racedown, seems as good as any yet advanced. Its main advantage is that it avoids the | .. '..' .......... ■ .. . '...... (17957 24 | |4. Aug 22 | J | | RS writes with enthusiasm of the poems he and STC have ! been preparing together. (Bodleian MS [A], f. 154; C&S in j Bristol, 339.) i 5. [Probably Sept 1795] I i f STC writes "To the Author of Poems." (PW I, 102-14; j see GCL 2.) 6. Sept 1 ! • ' I RS leaves 25 College Street, Bristol, where he has had | a joint lodging with STC and Goerge Burnett, for Bath. Bur nett goes home, and [STC may move to other lodgings (48 Col lege Street.)'] (C&S in Bristol, 339.)2 j 7. [c Sept 12 (-at least Sept 19)] STC travels from Bristol to Nether Stowey to visit TP. He arrives [perhaps c Sept 12, stays at least until Sept 19,] when he returns to Bristol. (Poole I, 123-26; | ;see 1795:9.) Probably during this trip he writes "Lines Written at Shurton Bars." (See GCL 3.) 8. [Sept 14] W writes Richard Wordsworth from Bristol: W awaits DW, j in "a week at the farthest." (EY #51.) ! necessity of having to suppose incorrect STC's statement that he wrote 'Lines...at Shurton Bars' before he knew W. Southey could have come over from Bath to Bristol for a , : visit, and have been present for a meeting, at almost any jtime. STC may nevertheless have erred about the 'Lines...at 'Shurton Bars'; the two poets could have met, in the pre- jsence of Southey, in late Aug or early Sept. (The comment ;of Sara Coleridge fille that the meeting was in a house of j Pinney's while STC was on an excursion— see BL (1847) II, ! 1345-46— must inaccurately look forward to Racedown.) i Cottle's remark (Rem. 74) that a visit to STC at Stowey hadj been 'the means' of his own introduction to W is an obvious j absurdity. A line has been drawn through Barron Field's re petition of this statement in his Memoirs of W, BM Add MS ! 141, 325, and it appears that W was the drawer of the line." !(MRWC, 168, n8.) j 2But see C&S in Bristol, 339 n3. Whalley suggests that j STC may not move at all. j ;... . :.................................. ....~ (1795) 25 ' ' 9. Sept 19; [possibly Sept 19,] certainly by Sept 30 ; ■ i STC is with TP at Nether Stowey. (Poole I, 123-24.) j |[He possibly leaves for Bristol c this time;] certainly he j has returned by Sept 30, when he writes to Cottle from Bris-4 tol. (See 1795:10.) | 10. Sept 30 [1795] j STC writes Joseph Cottle from Bristol: He has re- j turned [probably from his visit to TP at Stowey], (See 1795:8,10.) He will see Cottle in the morning, will spend | that night at his house. Asks him to send some old prints j ito Sara Fricker "before 9 to-morrow morning...as by that I time the cart will be setting off with our goods." (CL I #89; EKC, 39.)3 j 11. Oct 1 RS writes Grosvenor Charles Bedford from Bath: "My poetical taste was much meliorated by Bowles, and the con- ! stant company of Coleridge." (CS I, 247.)^ 12. [Oct 1795] ! RS writes Grosvenor Charles Bedford from Bath: "Cole- I ridge has behaved wickedly towards me." (NL, 101.)5 j 13. [Oct 1, 1795] j [STC probably spends this night with Joseph Cottle at Cottle's house.] (CL I #89.) 14. Oct 4 ([-sometime after Oct 8 and probably before i Dec 1795, perhaps by Oct 19]) STC marries Sara Fricker at Bristol (hereafter re- i ;ferred to as SC). Josiah Wade^ and Martha Fricker are | 3STC is preparing the honeymoon cottage for occupancy, ! in anticipation of his upcoming marriage on Oct 4. ;(See 1795:14.) ^This comment refers to their recent Bristol associa- 1 tion. 3A reference to the quarrel over RS's defection from Pantisocracy. 6 Wade, of Bristol, was an enthusiastic supporter of j STC, and paid his debts from the Watchman. .... . (1795) 26 Witnesses ("see notices of the Wedding in Bonner and Middle- iton's Journal, Oct 10; Bristol Gazette and Public Adver- ! jtiser, Oct 15; and in Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, pet 17," Hanson 443, n61). STC, SC go to the honeymoon cottage at Clevedon, where they remain till [sometime after I Oct 8 and probably before Dec 1795, perhaps by Oct 19,] when1 they return to Bristol. (Poole I, 130; SHB 106; EKC 47. I , See 1795:22. On experiences at Clevedon, see "Eolian Harp,"; PW I, 100; DA 442, n52.) [Apparently George Burnett and j Martha Fricker move in with the bridal couple.] (CN I #283;! CL I #93; C&S in Bristol, 339; EKC 47.) j 15. [c Oct 4, 1795] | ; i ■ STC records in his notebook a list of plans for domes- j tic activities of the day [at the cottage in Clevedon.] (CN I #283 and n; CL #93.) j 16. [Possibly c Oct 4, 1795] , STC records an expense account, totaling £25/15/6, that [possibly includes items paid for by Josiah Wade, witness and best man at the wedding.] (CN I #285 and n.) 17. [Probably Oct 5; Oct 7] STC writes to Cottle requesting him to send to the cotH tage at Clevedon several items of domestic use. Cottle ! rides down himself on the day after receiving the letter. (CL I #90; Cottle:Rec I, 59; CN I #284. See 1795:18.) 18. [Probably Oct 7] Cottle rides to Clevedon to pay his respects to the newly married STC's. (Cottle:Rec I, 59-60.)® [Evidently this evening,] STC writes to TP at Nether StoWey. He writes happily of his marriage, calls SC "the woman, whom I love best of all created Beings." He has given up the Provincial! Magazine project in which he had been involved with RS: "I ; must be connected with R. Southey in it, which I could not j 7 George Burnett was STC's partner in the abortive Watchman scheme, and a derelict from the cause of pantisoc- j racy. Martha Fricker was SC's sister. O °Probably during this visit of Cottle's, SC has the experience of losing her thimble that is recorded in "The ! Silver Thimble" (PW I, 104-06). The poem is written shortly after Cottle's visit, on receipt of the thimble sent by him ;to replace the lost one. ! ........... ~. (1795) 27 j i be with comfort to my feelings." Cottle has contracted to jgive him a guinea-and-a-half for every line of poetry. I (CL I #90,91; Cottle:Rec. I, 57.)9 i 19. [Probably Oct 8] : i Cottle leaves the STC's at Clevedon, carrying with him STC's letter to TP. (See 1795:18; CL I #91.) 20. [Oct, probably shortly after Oct 8 (-c early Mar 1796)] STC continues to work on "Religious Musings," which was begun [probably Dec 24, 1794,] and not completed till [c ! early Mar 1796.] (CL I #92 and nl, p.162; #77; #107. See ' also #116,119; GCL 5.) j i ' i 21. [Oct, probably shortly after Oct 8] : | [Probably after Cottle's visit] STC writes to Cottle j regarding the publication of the 1796 Poems, including "Re- j ligious Musings," which he is here still calling "Nativity": "The Nativity is not quite three hundred lines...it has cost me much labor in polishing, more than any poem I ever ! wrote— ." He will send the preface to the Poems "on Wed nesday morning by nine o'clock." (CL I #92 and nl, p.162; ; GCL 5,11.) 22. [After Oct 8, perhaps by Oct 19; probably at least by Dec; by the end of Dec] j ; t [Sometime after Oct 8, perhaps by Oct 19 (see 1795:24)] STC, SC return from Clevedon to Bristol, where they move in! with SC's mother on Redcliffe Hill. [Probably at least by i Dec, perhaps between Nov 25 and Dec 23,] they are visiting TP at Stowey (see 1795:32), where STC studies gardening andj begins to formulate his plan to live at Stowey, writes re- j views and works on "Religious Musings" for the press.10 j ^This contract of Cottle's is probably the basis on |which STC, when asked by a friend "how he was to keep the j pot boiling when married," answered "that Mr. Cottle had made him such an offer that he felt no solicitude on the j subject." (Cottle:Rec I, 5 7 . ) i i 10Meteyard, 7 3 , says definitely that STC was in Stowey' in Oct, while Hanson, 9 0 , says he did not even leave Cleve-j don till "late in November." I do not know the authority for either statement, but if Shaver is correct in dating j i E Y # 5 3 [probably 1 7 9 5 late Oct or early Nov] (see 1 7 9 5 : 2 7 ) , j !w was expecting to see STC and Southey in Bristol then. ! And STC's "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement" !"”.. : ............... '- (1795) 28 j • i[By the end of Dec, perhaps by Dec 23]-, they return to Bris tol (see 1795:35), and STC begins to make plans for the Watchman. ! (CL I #91? Poole I, 130? Cottle:Rec I, 137? iCL I #95,96? Cottle:Rec I, 150.)11 23. Oct 10 ! TP writes from Stowey to STC: Congratulations on his j marriage? encouragement to write a creative work of impor tance? ^-2 TP's friendship for STC. (Poole I, 121-23.) ! ’ i 24. Oct 19 j ! STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library? [he evi- i dently returns it the same day.] (Bristol Borrowings 122.)13 : ' ! 25. [Probably mid-late Oct] | | STC writes "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Re tirement," after leaving the Clevedon cottage for Bristol. It is published in MM for this month. (MM II, 712? | (the Clevedon cottage) appeared in the Oct MM II, 7.12, whicli seems to indicate that they must have left Clevedon in Oct. j STC was certainly in Bristol Oct 19 (see 1795:25), and he seems to have been there at least through Nov 25, when he | borrowed a book from the library. He was back in Bristol by Dec 23? probably the interim was spent at Stowey. For ; Cottle's impressions of STC's reasons for leaving Clevedon j for Bristol, see Cottle:Rec I, 136. ; ! HMrs. Sandford says (Poole I, 130) that STC did not j leave Poole's for Bristol till early 1796? he may not have.I Cottle, however (Rec I, 150), says that STC's meeting at j the Rummer Tavern regarding the Watchman occurred in late Dec 1795, which would mean that STC was back in Bristol by j then? and on Dec 31 STC was certainly in Bristol (see CL I j #96), so he had probably been there for some little time before that, perhaps even by Dec 23 (see 1795:35,22n). Therefore, Cottle is probably correct on this point. •^See CL I #283,294 for further references to this sub ject. ; | •^Godwin (MS diary) for Oct 18 says, "Su. Dine at Hts ; [Holcroft's], W. Porson, Tuthill and E. Mansel? adv. Ritsonj ;H. Richter, Sharp, C. and Jones." There is no evidence that STC was in London on Oct 18. The "C" in this case, and also |on Dec 6, may be John Philpot Curran, the Irish judge. I Also, Godwin never uses "C" for STC. ; • i ! .......... ....... .....‘... ' ‘ . ”■ . (1795) 29 : I . i i i |PW I, 106-08; GCL 6.) j i ; 126. [Perhaps Oct 20 or 21] i i ■ | ; W writes William Mathews from Racedown: Saw STC in Bristol, but only a little; his good opinion of STC’s j italent. (EY #52; see 1795:3.) j 127. [Probably late Oct or early Nov 1795] ! j . j W writes to William Mathews from Racedown: "Tomorrow I am going to Bristol to see those two extraordinary young men, Southey and Coleridge." (EY #53. But see MRWC, 194 n5; 1797:29n.) [Possibly in late Oct or early Nov STC, RS ! see W in Bristol.] 28. [Nov] j Two of STC’s political lectures, given in February, are published as The Plot Discovered, and Conciones ad Populum. j (C&S in Bristol, 335.) 29. Nov [13] | STC writes a long, stinging letter to RS, recounting j the whole course of his defection from Pantisocracy and j STC’s displeasure with him. ' (CL I #93. See Hanson 88-89; for a discussion of this letter, its causes and effects.) 30. Nov 13 i RS marries Edith Fricker in Bristol. (NL, 102.) I 31. [Probably between Nov 20 and late 31797,. especially early 1796] ; j STC aids in W's emergence from his emotional and philo-f sophical crisis with greater strength and knowledge. (Prel ! X, 900-30; Prel2 XI, 304-56; MRWC, 176 ri20.)14 j 14STC was about this time first known to W (see 1795:3) and they probably began direct correspondence between Mar 6 j and May 13, 1796 (see 1796:74), a fact which would contri- I bute to W's recollection that it was now that STC lent him ! help in regulating his soul (although "living help" must j mainly look forward to Alfoxden, when W was no longer in a i state of serious depression). In any event, mention of J ;STC’s part in W's recovery is removed in Prel2. j ! • i t I " ........... ' .' “..' .' .' .‘ .....' '.. (1795) 30 ; j |32. Nov 25 | STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 122.) 33. [Dec] STC publishes "An Answer to a Letter to Edward Long Fox, M.D." (EKC, 48.) ! ! 34. [Probably Dec] | i STC writes Cottle concerning copy for the 1:797. Poems: ! "The printer may depend on copy by tomorrow." (CL I #94; I GCL 11.) 35. Dec 23 STC [evidently both checks out and returns on the same ! day] a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 122.) 36. Dec 24 STC checks out a book from the Bristol Library. (Bris tol Borrowings 122.) 37. (Late Dec] STC holds a meeting in the Rummer Tavern in Bristol with some of his friends, to procure subscribers for .the Watchman. He does not include Cottle in the meeting, and that same day writes to reassure Cottle: he was trying to i be easy on Cottle financially, and therefore did not invite: him to attend. Cottle receives the letter the day after the meeting. (CL I #95? Cottle:Rec I, 150.) j 38. Dec 30 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol; Borrowings 122.) j 39. Dec 31 STC attends a new year's party at John Morgan1s card ! club, becomes ill on just two small glasses of wine and has! ;a difficult night. ; (CL I #96; EKC, 49.) 40. [Probably 1795-1796] ; l STC writes "The Destiny of Nations." (PW I, 131-47; GCL 7.)...... | (1795) 31 '41. [Possibly Dec 1795-Jan 1796; possibly as late as Sept 30, 1799] STC records in his notebook "Slaughter, stern Nurse of Vultures." (CN I #124 and n; "Religious Musings," earliest printed version (Poems 1796), PW I, 120n; "Lines to a Young Man...Melancholy," PW I, 157-8; "Ode to the Departing Year, PW I, 168; CL #294; GCL 5,20,21.) 42. [Possibly Dec 1795-Jan 1796] STC records the following notebook entries: a. STC is thinking about a projected life of John Henderson, a~figure whose description in Cottle's Malvern Hills may have influenced STC's description of his Ancient Mariner. (CN I #174 (5); Cottle, Malvern Hills (4th ed 1829), 354; RX 26-8, 461-8 for dating; GCL 35.) b. STC is thinking about writing an ode to a looking glass, indicative of a narcissism which appears in many of his works. (CN I #174 (6), PW I, 32n; CL #156 PW II, 962; PW I, 75n; Osorio III, 95-8, PW II, 553; Carlyon I, 29; RX 26-8, 461-8; GCL 23.) c. STC contemplates writing a poem on escapes from misery, dealing with a candle. Candles appear else where in his works, primarily in Osorio and "The Des tiny of Nations." (CN I #174 (8) and (9) and n; RX 474 nlO; Osorio IV, 24-6: PW II, 564; "Destiny of Nations," Draft 2: PW II, 1026; GCL 7,23.) d. STC is thinking about a projected Adventures of Fletcher Christian, mutineer of the Bounty, a possible prototype of the Ancient Mariner. (CN I #174 (22) and n; CB; MPA; B Critic Nov 1794 (IV 559) ; CBA: RES NS V (1954) , 62-6; GCL 35.) e. STC contemplates a projected hymn to Dr. Erasmus Darwin, whose Botanic Garden influenced "The Ancient Mariner" in its descriptions of ice-sounds and ice- mountains. (CN I #174 (25) and n; Darwin, Botanic Garden II, iv, 367; GCL 35.) 1796 1. [Probably before Nov-Dee 1799; probably 1796] STC records in his notebook a description of a female | maniac in the woods which appears in "Love." (CN I #380; PW II, 993, Frag 38; "Love" Dec 21, 1799: see PW I, 330n; j GCL 63.) ! ■ ' i 2. [Probably 1796 or 17971 ! ' j STC records the following notebook entries: i a. A reference to eyes that sparkle like diamonds. (CN I #144 and n; AP 6; "Songs of the Pixies," Poems (1797) 37, PW I, 42 and n. See also CN I #137.) I b. A note that the only way to know God is through his j own revelation of himself— a favorite thought with STC, i it appears in BL as a quotation from the fifth book of j the fifth Ennead of Plotinus. (CN I #209 and n; BL I, ; 167.) j c. STC records a list of poems to discuss with Cottle ! for the "Selections" of NB entry 297— the Poems on Various Subjects. (See CN I #3-5 and n; CN I #297; ; GCL 11,31.) ; 3. [Probably between early 1796 and early 1797] i STC records a quotation from Thomas Maurice, The History of Hindostan (2 vols 1795) I, 106-7, on an image of ice j which vanishes as the moon wanes, reappears two days beforej the new moon. STC uses Maurice in "Kubla Khan," possibly also in AM. (CN I #240 and n; RX 379-85, 470 ni; GCL 33, ! 35.) | 4. [1796 or before Feb 5, 1797] : i STC writes "The Raven" [probably during this time.] i (PW I, 169; DA 545 n2.) (Pub MP Mar 10, 1798; see 1798:64; j GCL 14.) ; 5. [Probably before July 4, 1796] j : _ j The following notebook entries are made: "...* ' '..... (1796).33 ! > • j a. STC records a line on calumny's tongue which ap- j pears in "Verses...Horne Tooke," sent July 4, 1796. j ' (CN I #91 and n; "Verses...Horne Tooke," PW I, 151; > PW II, 989, Frag 5. Cf. CL #158; 1796:105; GCL 12.) j ; ! b. STC records in his notebook a reference to "dew- j drops blended together on the bosom of a rose," which appears variatim in several different places. (CN I | #142 and n; AP 6; variatim CL I #134; MM Sept 1796; j Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, Oct 8, 1796; "On a j Late Connubial Rupture in High Life," PW I, 152; CL I i #142; 1796:105,129,141; GCL 13.) j 6. [Probably before July 4, 1796, or at least by Sept 24, ! i 1796] ; j STC records in his notebook a line, "Shivers in naked-j ness," that appears in "On a Late Connubial Rupture in ! High Life:" (CN I #52 and n; CL #134; PW I, 152; CL #142; ! 1796:105,141; GCL 13. Pub MM Sept 1796, II, 647.) j 7. [Before July 4, 1796, probably between June-28-July 4] STC records "A Ruffian flesh'd in murthers" (cf. PW I, j 151, "Verses addressed to J. Horne Tooke": "...to the sports of his flesh'd Ruffians left / Two lovely Mourners ; of their sire bereft." Also records another note con- i cerning a robber, probably related to the same work.) i (CN I #38 and. n, #46; "Verses addressed to J. Horne i Tooke," PW I, 151, 11. 47-48, STC n; CL I #134; 1796:105; j GCL 12.) | ; I 8. [Probably before Apr 1796] STC records a note indicating the need to "speak to ; Cottle concerning Selections"— possibly an early reference j i to Poems, to go to press in July 1795, pub Apr 16, 1796. ! : (CN I #297; see CN I #305; GCL 11.) ! j 9. [Jan] | i W writes to Cottle from Racedown: "Best compts to | Coleridge, and say I wish much to hear from him." (EY#57.)i ; i 10. Jan 1 After a difficult night (see 1795:39), STC is "re- j Icovered" on Jan 1; writes Cottle, saying he expects to see j him the next day (see 1796:11.) (CL I #96.) ! i .........''...... '...'........ ‘ . (1796) 34 ] I ill. [Jan 2, 1796] ! I ‘ > [STC perhaps visits Cottle.] (CL I #96; 1796:10.) I | 12. Jan 6 j j STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol i Borrowings 122.) | i ' ; 13. Jan 9 (-Feb 13) | STC sets off from Bristol on a tour to procure subscri-r bers for the Watchman. He is with four others. They ride in a coach from Bristol to Worcester with a very fat man; j arrive at Worcester 2:30 p.m.; dine at the inn, "where I met Mr. Stevens"; go to High Street to see Mr. Barr, for infor- j mation regarding the possible publication of the Watchman. Mr. Barr is discouraging.STC writes to Josiah Wade in Bristol telling about his trip thus far, and expressing con fidence in Wade and Charles Danvers for support for the ! Watchman. [He evidently spends the night in Worcester.] (He returns Feb. 13; see 1796:32.) (CL #97; Cottle:Rec I, 153- j 55. For STC's later account of the tour, see BL I, 114-19.): 14. [Jan 10] : i [Still in Worcester, STC probably dines with Mr. Barr (See 1796:13 and n); sees Mr. Sandford in the eve; spends ! the night in Worcester.] (CL I #97.) 15. [Jan 11] ^ ! [Still in Worcester, STC probably goes through the "Manufactory" with Mr. Barr.] (CL I #97.) 16. [Probably Jan 12] (-Jan 22) ! ' j STC leaves Worcester for Birmingham [probably on this day.] There is no record of the date of his arrival there, j but he certainly leaves on the 22nd (see 1796:19). While j in Birmingham, he is ill and "confined for two days" with a j heavy cold (CL I #99). He also has the experience with the ! "rigid Calvinist...tallow-chandler" described in BL I, 115- ! 16, and the experience with the pipe described in BL I, 117-18. (CL I #97,98,99; BL I, 115-18.) ^•Mr. Barr was a porcelain manufacturer of the firm of j Flight & Barr (CL I #97 nl, p.175). In spite of his dis- j couraging attitude toward the Watchman project, Meteyard 73 j says he was "charmed" by STC. I do not know her authority j for this statement.................... . I 17. [Jan 17] STC preaches twice, "and indeed, pierformed the whole I service, morning and afternoon." And his sermons were "pre-| piously peppered with Politics." (CL I #98.) I ; ■ i 18. Jan [18] j ! j STC writes Josiah Wade from Birmingham: Is encouraged j with his fund-raising activities: "I have here, at least, double the number of subscribers, I had expected..." Later j he says, "about an hundred subscribers, I think." (CL I #98,99.) j 19. [Jan 22 (-Jan 25)] j : ' i STC leaves Birmingham at 4:00 a.m. for Derby, [which j he probably reaches on the same day, remaining till Jan 25] ; (see 1796:20). In Derby he probably raises forty or fifty subscriptions. He meets Mr. Jedediah Strutt, who gives him j a letter of introduction to Mr. John Fellows of Nottingham, i (CL I #99)2 20. [Jan 25 (-Feb 1)] j STC leaves Derby for Nottingham, [which he probably reaches on the same day.] He brings with him the letter of j introduction from Mr. Strutt to Mr. Fellows (see 1796:19). He meets Mr. Fellows at a public dinner in honor of Mr. Fox's birthday. (He remains at Nottingham till Feb 1; see 1796:24.) (CL I #99.) 21. Jan 27 STC is still in Nottingham (where he arrived Jan 25; | see 1796:20). Here he writes another letter to Josiah Wade;! his itinerary from here on will include Sheffield, Manches- j ter, Liverpool, London, then back to Bristol. He also com- ' ments at length on the unreflecting atheism of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, whom he has met in Nottingham.3 (CL I #99.) ^Jedediah Strutt (1726-97), cotton spinner. (CL I #99 j n2, p.177. STC also meets Strutt's daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Evans (see 1796:108). "John Fellows (1756-1828), a silk I merchant and father of the archeologist, Sir Charles Fel lows, was a prominent member of the High Pavement Chapel, | Nottingham." (CL I #99 nl, p.178.) ; I 3Physician and author of The Botanic Garden. (CL I #99! n4, p.177.) ! I"".... ..... ................. .........' (1796) 36 i 22. Jan 29 STC writes the Rev. John Edwards from Nottingham. He jtalks some more about Darwin; he is homesick. (CL I #100, 101.)4 i 23. [Jan 31] j l j STC preaches a charity sermon at the Unitarian chapel j in Nottingham. He says about it, "my Sermon was the best j composition I have every been guilty of." (CL I #100,101, 102.) 24. [Feb 1 (-Feb.5) ] j ' ' t STC leaves Nottingham by the mail coach, arrives in I Sheffield. (CL I #101.) [This is the day he is supposed j to see the blossom that prompts "On Observing a Blossom on j the First of February 1796." The poem is probably written j c this time.] (PW I, 148-49; GCL 9.) He leaves Sheffield j [Feb. 5]. (See 1796:28.) He obtains only about thirty sub-' scriptions in Sheffield because of the competition with John Montgomery's paper. (See 1796:26n; CL I #103.) j 25. Feb 2 In the morning in Sheffield, STC calls on Mr. Kirkby with a letter of introduction from Bristol, but Mr. Kirkby is "journeying." STC then calls on Mr. Naylor, who is | visiting a friend four miles away. STC walks the four miles to see him, is received politely by Mr. Naylor, who declines^ an interest in the Watchman or in helping STC find a pub- ! lisher. He does, however, recommend STC to Mr. Smith and j gives him a letter of introduction to a Mr. Shore. On his way back from seeing Naylor, he gets lost. An ugly old wo- j man at a cottage sends her son to guide him.5 From Shef- ! field, STC writes Josiah Wade: Concern for the health of j SC. He expects to leave Sheffield Feb 4, Manchester Feb 8, ! and Liverpool Feb 12 and not go to London at all. (He does i hot, however, carry out this plan, but goes directly home J 4"The Rev. John Edwards was the Unitarian minister of i the New Meeting at Birmingham." (CL I #100 n2, p.178.) ; 5The Rev. Benjamin Naylor was assistant minister at the' Upper Chapel, Sheffield. He was visiting the Rev. Astley ! Meanley, minister at the Underbank Chapel, Stannington, near Sheffield. Mr. John Smith of Sheffield was a bookseller (cf. CL I #115). Mr. Shore was "a man of fortune who lives at Mearsbrook, two miles from Sheffield" (STC comment, CL I #101) ................. from Manchester by way of Lichfield.) (See CL I #104,126; 1796:31.)6 26. [Feb 3] Still at Sheffield, STC calls on Mr. Shore (see 1796:25n), who promises to recommend the Watchman so far as he is able. STC then calls on Smith (see 1796:25n), who will not help with the Watchman because to do so would in jure the paper of Montgomery, who is a friend of Smith's.7 ;(CL I #102.) 27. Feb 4 [1796] STC writes the Rev. John Edwards (see 1796:22n): His activities of the past few days. His next stop on the tour is Manchester; he leaves tomorrow morning at 6:00 (see 1796:28). (CL I #102.) 28. [Feb 5, 1796 (-probably Feb 7, 8, or 9)] [STC evidently takes a coach from Sheffield to Man chester, leaving at 6:00 a.m. and not arriving till 10:00 p.m.] (CL I #102,103; BL I, 117.) ([Probably Feb 7, 8, or 9] he leaves Manchester for Lichfield and Bristol, having decided not to go to Liverpool and London.) (CL I #104; 1796:30.) 8 29. [Feb 6, 1796] STC visits a man in Manchester who is very much unin terested in the Watchman. Later in the day he writes to Josiah Wade; he does not name the man. (CL I #103.) 6Griggs explains that STC has Wade carry out his task of obtaining subscribers in London, since STC is unable to go there himself. While in London, Wade meets STC's friend, Robert Allen. For the Allen letter to STC, see CL I #102 n2, p.181. 7James Montgomery (1771-1854), the poet, was im prisoned in Jan 1796 for libelous statements respecting Colonel Athorpe, a magistrate (CL I #102, n4, p.182). O °Hanson (98) says mistakenly that STC went to Liver pool. r ................. ■....-... “.. (1796) 38 1 ! ' i 30. [Probably Feb 7, 8, or 9] j t I i STC leaves Manchester for Lichfield.9 j ;31. [Feb 10, 1796] | i j ! j STC writes Josiah Wade from Lichfield: His success at : Lichfield in obtaining subscriptions for the Watchman. He expresses doubts and fears relating to "friendships lost by I indolence, & happiness murdered by mismanaged sensibility"; j also "a quickset hedge of embarrassments!" Concludes with ! some lines over STC's initials beginning "The Fox, and Statesman subtile wiles ensure..." (PW II, 1089.) (CL I #104.)10 ! ; i 32. [Feb 13] STC, having cut short his tour because of SC's ill ness, arrives back in Bristol and rejoins SC at her mother's on Redcliffe Hill, (fie has been gone since Jan 9. See ; 1796:13.) (EKC 51; CL I #104 nl, p.184.)11 33. Feb 22 From Redcliffe Hill in Bristol, where STC, SC are staying with her mother, STC writes Joseph Cottle: He wishes God had made him "a journeyman Shoemaker, instead of ; an 'Author by Trade.'" Refers to "a specious rascal who deserted me in the hour of distress" (RS); also the Panti- socracy idea as "a scheme of Virtue impractical & romantic."; Mentions how difficult it is to write "when every minute I am hearing a groan of pain from my Wife— groans, & complaints & sickness!"12 (See 1796:31.) Says he has been working 9STC's remark in his Feb 10 letter to Wade that he "succeeded very well here at Lichfield" appears to indicate that he has already been there for some time, probably a minimum of two days. (See 1796:31.) 10For a discussion of STC's unacknowledged indebtedness! to Burns' second "Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fin- try," see O. Ritter, "Coleridgeana," Englische Studien, LVIII [1924], 372-73. 11My source for this date comes only from Chambers, and; from Griggs who quotes him. I have not been able to dis cover the source of their information. 12Is this the first recorded hint of STC's trouble with his wife? .. -. (1*796) 39 j this day on "the first rude Sheet of my Preface," which he had intended to have finished back in Oct (see 1795:21). !(CL I #105. On Cottle's response to this letter/ see CL I •#106 nl, p.186 and Cottle:Rec I, 141; 1796:34; GCL 11. i i 34. [Probably late Feb, after Feb 22, 1796] In answer to STC's Feb 22 letter (see 1796:33), Cottle i writes consolingly, sends money, and arranges an interview j which occurs shortly thereafter. (Cottle:Rec I, 143.) 35. [Possibly Feb 20 or 27, 1796] [STC intends to visit Cottle on possibly one of these days, but evidently remains in Bristol instead.] (CL I ; #106.) i 36. Feb 26 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 122.) 37. [Late Feb 1796] STC writes Cottle [from Bristol?]: He meant to have been with Cottle on Saturday (see 1796:35), "but Mrs. Cole- I ridge's Spirits would not permit me, George Burnet being absent.^ I shall come in tomorrow to dine with W. Coates."; Discussion of two poems that are to appear in the 1796 j Poems, the one addressed to Cottle himself (PW I, 102), and j the one ostensibly written by SC, "The Silver Thimble" (PW I, 104-06). (CL I #106; see CL I #92 n3, p.162; GCL 2, I 4,11.) j 38. [Late Feb 1796, after 1796:37] [STC perhaps dines with W. Coates.] (CL I #106.)^ 39. [Probably c Feb-Mar 1796] j STC thinks about writing an opera based on Ossian's j Carthon. The theme perhaps later influenced "Kubla Khan" I and "Christabel." (CN I #161(g) and n; Bristol Borrowings (73); also (95); CL I #24,45; PW I, 39-40. GCL 33,43.) ; ^Evidently there has been pressure from Cottle for STCi to get his 1796 Poems ready for publication. ■^Burnett was evidently continuing to live with STC at I Bristol (see 1796:56). I • * - 5Rev. Coates was a Unitarian minister, in Bristol J (1796) 40 40. [Probably c Feb-Mar 1796] STC is thinking about his projected Poems, which does indeed appear Apr 16, 1796. (CN I #161 (h); GCL 11. See 1796:69.) 41. [Probably c Feb-Mar 1796] STC is thinking about writing a tragedy, probably Osorio. (CN I #161 (k); GCL 23.) 42. Mar 1 (-May 13) The first issue of The Watchman appears; runs for ten issues, through May 13. Cottle and SC assist STC in the preparation of invoices to send to the subscribers for the first issue. Cottle apparently assists thus with every sub sequent issue.^ 43. Mar 1 "To a Young Lady" first published. (Watchman I, Mar 1 1796; PW I, 64-65. Written Sept 1794.) 44. [Early Mar, probably before Mar 3 or 10] STC writes to Cottle [from Bristol]: The "Religious Musings" (earlier referred to as "Nativity"— 1795:21) are finished; Cottle "shall have them on Thursday" (probably Mar 3 or 10, as these are the dates of the first two Thurs days in March of 1796). (CL I #107. See CL I #107 n2, p.187, on the dating of this letter. GCL 5.) 45. [1796, possibly Mar 3 or 10], certainly before Mar 30 Cottle receives STC's "Religious Musings." (See 1796:61.) 46. [Mar 6 ff, esp. by Mar 25] JFP, Jr., [presumably his man Rawlins,] and Aza P de part from Racedown [Mar 6]. (They had arrived Feb 10, 24, respectively.) Aza P takes with him the MS of SP, which he 160n Cottle's version of his further part in the Watchman scheme, see Cottle:Rec I, 162-63. See also Hanson 98-100, 108-11, for a discussion of the abortive Watchman. (1796) 41 delivers to Cottle at Bristol; Cottle gives it to STC, who [probably by Mar 25] interleaves it with white paper for ^comments and works out a plan for its publication (500 | copies) and the sale of copies to the readers of The Watch- j man. (EY #58; Gill Diary; Evans and Pinney 12-13; EKC 75; CL I #127 nl, p.216. See 1796:82.) 47. [Probably between May 6 and May 13 and thereabouts] ; ‘ i The earliest direct correspondence between W and STC. Probably about this time STC encourages W to publish SP. (See 1796:80 and references there cited; G&S IF n; 1795:3.) I i ■ j 48. Mar 9 j "Imitations Ad Lyram" first published (written 1794). ; Watchman II, Mar 9, 1796; PW I, 59-60.) j l 49. Mar 10 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol j Borrowings 122.) j 50. Mar 12 j STC, from Bristol, writes the Rev. John Edwards, in | Birmingham: He is very much depressed— troubles with the j printer, with George Burnett (his associate in the Watchman I venture), and with SC, who is "expected hourly to mis carry"— and has been taking laudanum to relieve the dis tress.17 Discusses the Watchman, desires Edwards' opinion of it. Expects to move into his new house on Oxford Street j in Bristol "in the course of a fortnight" (before Mar 26). (CL I #108.) j 51. [c Mar ]2] . ! STC writes Cottle from Bristol: Complains of the per- ! Iformance of Burnett (see 1796:48); STC himself has an in flamed eye and cannot leave the house. (CL I #190.) j : j 52. [1796, after Mar 12 and before Mar 30, probably before I Mar 26] (-Dec 31) j [Sometime after Mar 12 and before Mar 30, probably j 17Griggs notes, CL I #108 nl, p.188, that "this is the | first indication that Coleridge was using drugs to relieve j mental distress. The earlier reference to opium (cf. | Letter 10) points to an occasional use for medicinal pur poses , not as here to a daily recourse to it. See also I (1796) 42 ' before Mar 26,] STC, SC move into their new home on Oxford Street, Kingsdown, Bristol. (With the exception of a brief j trip to Darley in July and an extended one in Aug, and a j brief trip to Birmingham in Sept (see 1796:108,115,133), STC and family remain at this residence till Dec 31, 1796, when j they move to Nether Stowey (see 1796:199)). (CL I #108,144.) ! ’ '1 ’ ! 53. [c Mar 14] i STC receives a bill from Biggs, the printer, for "about £10." He also receives a letter from Cottle, apologizing for i a previous letter of reproof for STC's "indolence & frequent: breach of promise" (STC's own words). ! STC then writes Josiah Wade [who has apparently written offering to replace Cottle with someone else as STC's pub- ! lisher]. STC declines the offer; basically he gets along well with Cottle; Cottle's apology. Also tells Wade about the bill from Biggs. Asks Wade to pay the bill: "in the course of a Month or 5 weeks I shall settle with my Book sellers when I will begin to repay you my long, long bill by Instalments." SC is also "rather better." [STC possibly calls on Wade in the afternoon,] though this is doubtful, for the letter says "am afraid I shall not be able— ."18 (CL I #110.) I 54. Mar 17 • • ' "The Hour When We Shall Meet Again" first published. (Watchman III; PW I, 196; written 1795? EHC date.) "An Elegy" published for the second time. (Watchman •III; PW I, 69-70; written 1794? EHC date.)19 Letters 150 and 151." 18STC has recurring financial problems. The refer ences refer to these: CL I #132 and headnote; Poole :i, 228-31; CL I #191,192,218,219; Meteyard 99,210; CN I #396 | and n, #380 and n; CL I #269; CN I #399; Minnow #3; CN I j #405 and n; CL I #278; CN I #408, #423; CL I #329,332,334, i 335; CN I #748; CL I #339,350,354,369; CL II #373; Poole II,! 23-25; CL II #375,377; Poole II, 28-29; CL II #400,403,418, i 430,436,446,461,471,472,489,506,515. 19First published Morning Chronicle^ Sept 23, 1794. For a discussion of STC's unacknowledged debt to Akenside, : see DA 38-40. j (1796) 43 [55. [c Mar 19] i | Edith Southey is apparently visiting SC, so STC may jhave an evening alone to spend working on the poems for j iCottle. [SC, however, evidently has trouble that seems like !a miscarriage, so it is debatable how much he gets done.] ! ; (She does not miscarry; Hartley is born Sept 19. See CL I I #119.) | He writes Cottle: His anticipation of time to work on I Ithe poems; promises to stay "in the stirrups...till Monday | morning," because he would like to see his poems out "by the conclusion of next week" (they are not published till j 'April 16). (CL I #111,112; GCL 11.) ,56. Mar 20 I ; [STC may spend this day working on his poems for Cottle] (see 1796:55). He also writes John Edwards: A discussion of the Watchman. Admits to being concerned with its profits be- jcause of the people who depend on him for support: "My jwife, my wife's Mother, & little Brother, & George Burnet— i | [sic] five mouths opening & shutting as I pull the string!": Asks Edwards to pray for his brains; talks about being "in j stirrups all day, yea, & sleep in my Spurs" (see 1796:55). (CL I #112.) ■57. [Late Mar] Evidently in the morning, STC writes Cottle: Will be with him for tea at 6:00, and spend the rest of the eve till 111:00 under "lock & key," writing out "the whole of the notes & the preface" for the 1796 Poems. In the morning he I is going to answer letters; have dinner at 8:00 with Michael Castle— then on to Cottle's shop. [Presumably he follows ;this schedule for this day.] (CL I #113; GCL 11.) 58. [Before Mar 25, 1796] STC writes "Ver Perpetuum." (See 1796:59; GCL 8.) ; 59. Mar 25 "Ver Perpetuum" first published. (Watchman IV: PW I, 148.) "Ode" first published, over the signature "G.A.U.N.T."; j(Watchman IV: PW I, 35 and n2; see 1796:176. Written 1792— |EHC date.) } |60. Mar 28 i i STC receives thirty guineas for the copyright of his j ■ ......... ~.■ ' ' . (1796) 44 i i Poems. (The poems for the 1796 volume have finally been [completed and sent to the printer. The printing is com- ipleted by Mar 30; see CL I #114; 1796:61). (CL I #114 nl, ip.195; GCL 11.) STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 122.) i TP writes STC from Stowey: The £35 or 40 collected for STC by his friends. Their scheme to continue this as an I annuity, each subscriber giving £5-6 a year for six years.2P i ' i 61. Mar 30 j t ! i STC, from Bristol, writes TP at Nether Stowey: Apo logy for TP's not having received copies of the Watchman. j Wishes TP's opinion of it. Difficulties with his printer ; and worries over his wife. The Watchman "continues to j yield a bread-and-cheesish profit." STC, SC have moved intc) their new house (see 1796:52). His Poems is finished (see ! 1796:60). His love to TP's mother. (CL I #114; GCL 11.) 62. [1796] Apr 1 STC writes John Smith: He has sent Smith 25 copies of No. V of the Watchman. May he send Smith "on sale or ! return a few copies of my Conciones ad Populum, and of The Plot Discovered..."? (CL I #115.) 63. Apr 1 | STC writes Benjamin Flower:2^ - STC has sent Flower ten j copies of Conciones ad Populum and of The Plot Discovered, j hoping that Flower can sell or even give them away. He has i sent also a copy of his 1796 Poems, which has not yet been j published, asking Flower to send it to Lunn and Deighton, to see if they will be the publisher in Cambridge. Robinson and Cadwell are the London publishers. "I rest for all my j poetical credit on the 'Religious Musings."' (CL I #116; ~ ! GCL 5,11.)22 | 64. Apr 2 | ‘ I "Recollection" first published. (Watchman V, Apr 2, j .. ' * | 2®TP sees that STC does not receive this letter till i May 13, the day of the issuing of the last number of the ' Watchman (see 1796:80). j 21"A Cambridge friend and editor of the Cambridge In- i telligencer." (CL I #116 nl, p.196.) | 22See Hanson 103-08 for a discussion of "Religious Mu- | sings. "...................-;....-.------ - — .... • ------1 (1796) 45 11796. Written 1793. EHC dating. Lines 2-11 later pub jPW I, 48, as "Sonnet: To the River Otter.") i 65. [1796, Apr 2] j j "Letter to Caius Gracchus" published. (Watchman V, j ■Apr 2, 1796; CL I #117.)23 j ■66. [1796, early Apr] j ! [STC evidently spends the day working on the Watchman, j probably visits Cottle at 9:00 at night.] (In the morning . j he writes Cottle to this effect.) Cottle has evidently ! suggested a second edition of the Poems, with which STC readily complies. Also asks for "25 or 30 of the poems" to j be "ready by tomorrow," indicating that the volume has not | been published by this date. (CL I #118; GCL 31.) j i 67. Apr 11 i i "To Lesbia" first published. (MP Apr 11, 1798; PW I, ! 60-61. Written 1794— EHC date.) j "On Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796" i first published. (Watchman IV, Apr 11; PW I, 148; GCL 9.)24! STC affectionately inscribes a copy of his Poems to TP.i (CL I #120.) | 68. Apr 15 | From Bristol, STC writes Cottle: A letter of apprecia-' tion for Cottle's help with the poems: "On the blank leaf j of my poems, I can most appropriately write my acknowledg ments to you..." (CL I #121.) | 69. [Apr 16] : i . The 1796 Poems is published. (Hanson 103; CL I #122 n2, p.204.)25 23In the Bristol Gazette for Mar 24, 1796, Caius j Gracchus published a letter attacking STC for daring to dif-j fer with Godwin in the first issue of the Watchman. This j letter is STC's reply, politely but firmly defending his own': opinions on Godwin. 24See LL I, 9; DA 452-53, n2, for a discussion of STC's probable indebtedness to Burns' "To a Mountain Daisy." "On Observing a Blossom" is often considered a companion poem toj VTo a Primrose" (PW I, 149-50; see 1796:73.) | 25K. Coburn says Apr 15 (CN I #161 (h)n) . j |70. [c mid-Apr] | [W appears tQ^receive STC's Poems on Various Subjects.] I (CL I, #119,120.)26 ! j : 71. Apr 25 | I i STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol j iBor rowings 123.) I i j 72. [Late Apr] STC writes John Thelwall from Bristol: He has heard | that Thelwall was offended by STC's mention of him in The ; Plot Discovered; STC writes in an attempt at explanation. Also sends Thelwall a copy of his Poems. (CL I #122. For Thelwall's criticism, see Modern Language Review. Jan. 1930,; 85-90. See CL I #133 for STC's reply; 1796:96.)27 73. [Spring 1796, before Apr 27] • ' j STC writes "To a Primrose."'28 (pw i, 149-50; 1796:74; GCL 10.) 74. Apr 27 "To a Primrose" first published. (Watchman VIII, Apr 27, 1796; PW I, 149-50. See 1796:73.) 75. [Apr 27] STC sits up all night with his wife's sister, Mary j Lovell, whose husband, Robert, is dying of a fever, praying i with her and trying to comfort her. After 1:00 a.m., he finally has her sent to his own house. (CL I #124.) 2^TP certainly receives them c Apr 12 (CL I #120) , and | W has read STC's "Religious Musings" by May 13 (see CL I #127; 1796:80), so he must receive the Poems before then. ; : ' i 27John Thelwall (1764-1834): imprisoned in the Tower in May 1794; later tried for treason, he was finally ac quitted in Dec. Shortly after his release, he published Poems written in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate, ! 1795. (CL I, 204 nl. See Hanson 114-16 for a discussion of the Thelwall-STC relationship.) j : j 28Drawn without acknowledgment from the Irish magazine ! Antholoqia Hibernica (Dublin, 1793). For a discussion of I the plagiarism in this poem, see Lewis Patton, TLS, 3 Sept j 1938, 590. . Sometimes considered a companion poem to "On _ J i ...: ..'............. '..’ . (1796) 4 7 I i i ] |76. Apr 28 | STC's sister-in-law's husband, Robert Lovell, dies at 10:00 a.m., after having professed himself a convert to Christianity a month before. Mary Lovell apparently takes it calmly: she "perpetually questions me concerning the Re-; surrection," says STC. (CL I #124.) j i i 77. [Shortly before] and on Apr 30 j STC has been reading Count Rumford's Essays for a re- j view in the Watchman, and [has evidently been inspired to J apply the plan found there to cities in England.] On Apr 30! he writes Cottle regarding possible publication of the pro- j iject. (CL I #123. Cottle declines the publication: see j Cottle:Rec I 146n.) 9 78. May 5 j STC writes TP from Bristol, upbraiding him for not j writing for four weeks. The reception of the 1796 Poems, the illness of SC's mother, the death of Robert Lovell (see j 1796:76). The unhappy fate of the Watchmany STC's financial; idifficulties. Two alternative plans for the future: 1 ) To ! have Robinson, the London bookseller, pay his way to Jena, ! Germany, so that he could translate the works of Schiller, j and establish a school for young men on his return; or 2) to become "a Dissenting Parson." (CL I #124; GCL 11.) ; 79. May 6 j i i I STC still has not sent the letter to TP that he | started the day before (see 1796:78); he writes a post script, requesting again that TP write him promptly. (CL I 1 #124.) | STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol j Borrowings 123.) I 80. May 13 ; The final issue of the Watchman appears. j STC receives TP's Mar 28 letter regarding financial I assistance (see 1796:60; Poole I, 142; CL I #125 headnote; CL I #191.) STC writes TP, acknowledging the letter. He expresses j some reluctance to accept the plan because he doubts that ! Observing a Blossom" (see 1796:67). 29The plan is possibly for garden cities; see EKC 54; Hanson108-09. j.......r...................•........ - . (1796) 48 ! leveryone is as enthusiastic about it as TP. He also wishes jto rely on his own efforts for support. The final issue of the Watchman: it "does not pay its expenses." Intends to jvisit TP on Monday (May 16). (See 1796:81; CL I #125.) | STC writes John Fellows expressing gratitude for his I help with the Watchman and explaining about its termination.) (CL I #126.) j : STC writes John Thelwall: Refers to W as a "very dear j friend," and, in his opinion, "the best poet of the age." W j has read STC's "Religious Musings." Carries on the dis cussion with Thelwall begun in April (see 1796:72) con- j cerning the various issues on which there is disagreement between them. (CL I #127; 1796:70; Moorman I, 283-94.)30 i 81. [1796, probably May 15] (-May 28) STC goes to Nether Stowey to visit TP, (probably to discuss TP's plan for financial assistance. See 1796:60, j 80.) He remains until May 28, when he returns to Bristol, j (See 1796:85.) (Poole I, 146.)31 82. [Perhaps late May] ■ STC sends [his MS of SP (1796:46)] to Lamb in London, who [reads it] "not without delight" (see 1796:83). (LL I. #2; .see 1796:88.) 83. [1796, May 24 or 31, possibly completed June 1] Lamb writes STC: Encloses the love sonnets STC re quested for publication in the second edition of his Poems (see GCL 31) . Gives reasons why he cannot visit STC in ! Bristol, especially an accident of his brother's. Lamb's "love and honor" of Priestley. Too ill to call on W, but "will.. .transmit him his poem, when I have read it" (SP) . Later, by June 1, he reads it, "not without delight." (LL I ,#2; 1796:82.) •^Further references STC's hero worship of W: CL I I #190,235,328,330. j 31STC had planned to go to TP's on the 16th (see 1796:80, CL I #125), but Charlotte Poole records in her diary his arrival on the evening of the 15th. She further ; records her uncomplimentary opinion of his vanity. "..' ..... ~........... (1796) 49 ‘ 84. May 27 Lamb writes STC: "Your poems I shall procure forth with... glad to hear you are employed about the evidences of religion."32 The end of the Watchman. Lamb's weeks in the mad house at Hoxton; STC at Bristol; encloses sonnet "To My Sister"; comments on Conciones ad Populum; good wishes to SC, whom he has not met. (LL I #1; GCL 11.) (Fof~personal references to Lamb not included in a separate entry, see LL I #8; CL I #143; LL I #9,10,12,15,19,20,22,23,24,31,32, 66.) j 85. May [28] | j STC, waiting at Bridgewater for his coach back to Bris-i tol, writes TP a friendly letter. He arrives at Bristol ! this evening. (He had been at TP's since May 15.) (CL I j #129,130; 1796:81.)33 ! i 86. [1796, May 29] j STC, back in Bristol after two weeks with TP at Nether ! Stowey, writes George Dyer thanking him for a contribution providing for his expenses. (CL I #130.) j 87. May 31 STC, from Bristol, writes John Fellows in Nottingham (see 1796:19n): Thanks to the persons who have subscribed j to STC's Poems at a guinea each, "to compensate the author 'for his disappointment in The Watchman1" (CL I #131 nl, j p.219). (Apparently the notice of the subscriptions came ! through Fellows.) STC is enthusiastic about Fellows' idea that he consider accepting the offer of a position as tutor : in a gentleman's family, but he puts forward the obstacle of his being married.3^ (CL I #131; GCL 11.) Lamb writes STC: Lamb is ill; sends sonnets to STC; 32This project of STC's was never realized. (See 1797:7.) ■^Mrs. Sandford: Poole I, 147, dates STC's return to Bristol as May 29. But CL I #130 makes it clear that the event occurred May 28. 3^STC has by this time evidently received the offer from Mrs. Evans of Darley Hall, indicating her interest in him as a tutor for her children. (See 1796:108.) j - .... ■......‘..................... (1796) 50 ; ■sorry for disagreement between STC and RS; comments on the j Watchman; sorry for STC's troubles; will soon read the Joan of Arc; comments on STC's "Eolian Harp." (LL I #2; GCL 1, 88. [June 1-probably July 9] [On a trip to London from Racedown, Lamb. Lamb possibly returns to W the MS STC.] (LL I, #2; 1796:82,83; LY #902.)35 89. June 6 i STC borrows a book from the Bristol Borrowings 123.) 190. June 8 Lamb writes STC: Comments on the Joan of Arc— much impressed. Expects RS "one day to equal Milton." Thanks STC for his frequent letters: "You are the only correspon- j dent and...the only friend I have in the world." (LL I #3. i Continued 1796:91. GCL 7.) 91. June 9 ; i ! Lamb continues his letter to STC begun the previous day (see 1796:90): Comments on STC's Poems; remarks on his own: "spare my Ewe Lambs." (LL I #3. Completed the fol lowing day: see 1796:92; GCL 11.) 92. [1796, June 10] Lamb completes his letter of the previous two days to STC (see 1796:90,91): Comparison of his blank verse to STC's1"Religious Musings"; the offer of a Unitarian chapel pulpit to STC; the tutorship offer from Mrs. Evans; criti- | cism of STC's "Monody on the Death of Chatterton." (LL I j #3; GCL 5.) 93. June 13 ; j Lamb writes STC: Further comments on Joan of Arc; RS's! genius; Lamb hopes to pay STC a visit at the end of Aug or early Sept for a week or two. (LL I #4.) (He does not make! the trip; see 1796:103.) j 35"The Gill Diary gives 'June 2nd Wednesday' for W's departure, but the correct date for the first Wed. of June is 1 June. (Cf. Moorman I, 292.)" (MRWC 182, n6.) W perhaps meets of SP sent him by ; Library. (Bristol I .... ..........' ' " (1796) 51 [ I • j ! 94. June 14 j | I Lamb writes STC: Further criticism of STC's "Monody Ion the Death of Chatterton"; expression of gratefulness forj STC's friendship. (LL I #4. Completed June 16: see 1796:95.) : i . 95. June 16 ! ■ i ! j Lamb writes STC, completes the letter begun June 14 I (see 1796:94): Projected visit "perhaps the last week or j fortnight in July." (LL I #4; 1796:103.) |96. June 22 STC, from Bristol, writes John Thelwall, in London: 'Requests, once again, a visit from him. Discusses once more ;the subject of atheism versus Christianity, which always | seems paramount in letters to Thelwall. (CL I #133.) : 97. June 23 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol j Borrowings 123.) ! 98. [On or shortly after June 28], by June 30 STC writes "Verses addressed to J. Horne Tooke." (PW I, 150-51; GCL 12.) 99. [1796, June 29] Lamb writes STC: Projected visit uncertain; hopes to come in a day or two. (LL I #5. Completed the following day: see 1796:100.) \ 100. [1796, June 30] Lamb completes his June 29 letter to STC (see 1796:99): Still uncertain regarding the visit to Bristol. Will see the Morning Chronicle of today for STC's verses on Horne Tooke. Approval of "On a Late Connubial Rupture..." (LL I #5; 1796:98; GCL 12,13.) 101. [Possibly June or July 1796] STC considers writing a poem on the excursion of Thor i in the manner of Dante— an idea which later possibly in fluences "Christabel" and AM. (CN I #170 and n; Bristol Borrowings (63), (99), (102); DB 97-116. See GCL 35,43.) ! .. --(1796)" 52 ! |102. July 1 j ! t ' STC receives from Perry, the Morning Chronicle editor,! jan offer of employment adequate to maintaxn himselfand his j jfamily. Grey, the co-editor with Perry, has just died, and j IPerry wishes STC to replace him. The offer would necessi tate STC's moving to London. He talks to Cottle about it, j as the Estlins, Charles Danvers, and Josiah Wade are out of ; jtown. He then writes Perry accepting the offer, probably on the same day. He is not happy at the prospect of leaving Bristol for London. (CL I #134.) 103. [July 1] Lamb writes STC: Richardson's refusal of Lamb's leave for the visit to Bristol. (LL I #5; 1796:93,95.) | 104. [Probably between July 2 and July 9] W returns to Racedown from London, arriving July 9. ; [A chance possibly exists that his return is via Bristol, and that he sees STC there and recites SP to him; but more likely W returns more directly.] (Moorman I, 292-293; Gill I Diary; 1795:3.)36 3^Mark Reed has summed up fairly thoroughly the argu- ! ments pro and con for STC's hearing W recite SP in Bristol | at this time: "The possibility of a visit to Bristol de pends on the likelihood of W's having made his 'recitation' ! of a poem, apparently SP, to STC at this time (see BL I, j 58). It is remotely possible that STC failed to read the poem before sending it to Lamb, although Aza P's comments of 25 Mar (Evans and Pinney 12-13) make such a supposition most doubtful. Mrs. Moorman's suggestion is that W's powers were given a 'new revelation' to STC upon a recitation now of the poem which STC had in fact read earlier (I, 293) . [And the 1805 Prel speaks of STC's response as one that j occurred after 'perusing' the verse. The poets would indeed have been very nearly 'strangers' in both late 1795 and i early 1796 before they opened their correspondence, probably between 6 Mar and 13 May. STC would probably have done his I perusing by early in the period of their first correspon dence, after which time (probably between July 2 and 9, during W's return to Racedown from London) the recitation— : and STC's response— could have occurred.] But STC had al- ! ready come to regard W as the 'best poet of his age' by 13 May (CL I, 215-16); it is hard to believe that the 'sud- i den effect' had occurred after STC arrived at that opinion, j and equally hard to imagine what other work (it would not have been EW and DS— see BL iv) could have brought him to j this high estimate. One. guess might be that STC had heard i ;105. July 4 i STC, from Bristol, writes the Rev. John Prior Estlin ;in Bridge End: He has accepted Perry's offer to write for the Morning Chronicle in London (see 1796:102). He speaks j favorably of the reviews of his Poems, includes some lines recently written on the Princess Caroline (PW I, 152) and ori Horne Tooke (PW I, 150). (CL I #134. See GCL 11,12,13. The poem on the princess includes the lines "souls blending together like dewdrops bosom'd on a flower." See variatim CN I #142 and n; AP 6; MM Sept 1796; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, Oct 8, 1796.) { ! j ;106. [July 4] j STC writes to TP from Bristol: Waiting to hear from j John Fellows (see 1796:87) regarding the offer of employment as tutor in a gentleman's home; has been waiting to write to TP till he hears. Has still not heard from Fellows. His acceptance of Perry's offer (see 1796:102). Is not happy j with the prospect. Thinks of going to TP for advice. (CL I #135.) ; STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 123.) 107. [1796, after July 4 and before July 28] [STC possibly rents a horse and rides to Stowey to sed TP about his offer of employment on the Morning Chronicle. He possibly supervises the writing of a letter of intro- duction for him from TP to Samuel Purkis in London, then j possibly goes to London and visits Purkis. While there, he i may examine the Morning Chronicle situation.]37 Purkis j writes a letter to Poole commenting on his anticipated in- | troduction to STC (Poole I, 151-52): His support of STC; his positive attitude toward STC's Morning Chronicle situa- I tion. ! W recite the poem in Bristol in Sept 1795, and that he was confirmed in a first high estimate of W's powers by later I comments of mutual friends in Bristol and his reading of the revised SP this spring— circumstances of this kind could j have tended to lead STC in later years to remember the ear- \ lier recitation as a rather more remarkable occasion than it! had actually seemed at the time." (MRWC 185 nil.) See Han-; son 116-117 for a discussion of the effect on STC of W's | ireading of SP. j i 37stc does not, after all, go to London to co-edit the1 Morning Chronicle. j j - ..-....- ...- ............ ■ ..---~ -- (1796) 54"; 108. [After July 4 and before July 28; Aug 6] J I | j STC, SC go to Darley to be interviewed by Mrs. Evans j i(see 1796;87n); STC likes and accepts the position— salary, j £150 a year. (Aug 6 STC is back in Bristol from Darley; j see 1796:114.) j ; . | 109. July 5 | Lamb writes STC, SC: A poem on his inability to come j to Bristol. (LL I #6; 1796:103.) j 110. July 6 | ! Lamb writes STC: Lamb is looking for a house in Lon- I don for STC (see 1796:105). STC's contemplated position as j co-editor of the Morning Chronicley enclosure: Lines "To j the Poet Cowper"; the reviews in the Monthly Review for I June 1796 of STC's Poems. (LL I #7; GCL 11.)3B j 111. July 13 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 123.) 112. July 14; [sometime following, probably after Aug 29] i RS lands in Portsmouth, returning from his trip to Portugal. [On his return to Bristol, the quarrel with STC is patched up; RS and STC go arm in arm to Cottle's.] (NL \ 107; Cottle:Rec I, 196-97. See 1797:128.) • 113. July 28 (-Aug 6) i STC leaves Darley for Bristol, where he arrives j Aug 6. (He has been at Darley since after July 4 and be- j fore July 28; see 1796:107.) At Tewkesbury, enroute to ; Bristol, he writes John Fellows: Thanks him for his part in securing the position with Mrs. Evans. He has left SC "hos-j tage" at Darley; will return there in ten days. (CL I | #136.) | 114. [1796, between July 28 and Aug 6;] Aug 6 On his way home from Darley (see 1796:108), STC has a j | 38”Between this and the next letter (Sept 27, 1796) j came, in all probability, a number of letters to Coleridge j which have been lost. It is incredible that Lamb kept si- j lence, at this period, for eleven weeks." (LL I n, p.39.) ■ brief stay at Ottery St. Mary's with his mother and bro thers. He arrives home in Bristol Aug 6, finds a letter from Mrs. Evans dated Aug 3 cancelling his position as tu tor. (CL I #140.) 115. Aug [63 STC writes TP from Bristol, enclosing Mrs. Evans' letter cancelling his position as tutor (see 1796:114). His letter is optimistic in spite of the disappointment. He heads back for Darley the same day, arriving the day fol lowing (see 1796:116; CL I #140), to retrieve his wife. j(CL I #137.) 116. Aug 7 (Aug 29) STC continues his journey to Darley, where he arrives this day, to retrieve SC and to terminate officially the offer of employment from Mrs. Evans. (He returns to Bris tol via Mosely, arriving Aug 29.) (CL I #138,139,140. See 1796:128.) 117. Aug 8 STC remains at Darley. (CL I #138,139,140.) TP writes STC from Stowey: His disgust with Mrs. Evans' cancellation of the position (see 1796:114). Sug gests getting pupils at Derby that will come to school at Bristol or at Derby. TP's continued care and support. (Poole I, 152-54.) 118. Aug 9 (-Aug 13) On Aug 9 STC, SC, and Miss Willet go in Mrs. Evans' carriage to Matlock, "which time was completely filled up with seeing the country, eating, concerts, &c.1 1 (CL I #138 139,140.) (They stay until Aug 13, when they return to Darley. See 1796:119.) 119. Aug 13 STC, SC, Miss Willet return from Matlock to Darley. (See 1796:118; CL I #138,139,140.) 120. Aug 14 STC, SC spend this day at Darley, where STC preaches. (CL I #138,139,140.) 121. Aug 15 STC, SC, Mrs. Evans leave Darley for a visit to ! ........ " ' (1796)..56 i I bakover, Ilam, Dove-dale? return to Darley the same day. J j(CL I #138,139,140.) j ; |122. Aug 16 : STC, SC spend this day at Darley, packing to leave. I (CL I #138,139,140.) | 123. Aug 17 STC, SC are to leave Darley today, but are detained by Mr. Crompton, a friend of Mrs. Evans', who comes to suggest ithat STC open a day school in Derby, which suggestion STC decides to accept.39 ( cl I #137,138,139; JDC 55. See |l796 :141,143.) ;124. Aug 18 STC, [SC] leave Darley for Burton and Lichfield. (They] spend the night at the latter, enroute to Mosely. \(CL I #138,139,140.)40 125. Aug 19 (-Aug 29) STC, [SC] go from Lichfield, where [they] spent the night (see 1796:124), to Mosely, to the home of Mr. Thomas Hawkes. ([They] remain here till Aug 29, when [they] leave for Bristol.) (See 1796:128.)4^ - 126. Aug 21 At Mosely, STC preaches [at least] in the morning. (CL I #138,139,140.) 39^he school never opens. 40Hanson (122) assumes that because STC does not men tion SC in CL I #138,139,140, she is not with him, but has returned directly to Bristol, leaving STC to go on to Mose- ; ley alone. There is, however, no direct evidence that she and STC have parted ways, and she is certainly with him at j iOakover and Ilam earlier in the week (see 1796:121), though; he does not mention her in CL I #138. ^Hanson (122) says that STC again met Charles Lloyd | ;in Moseley. This seems possible, in view of Lloyd's letter! j (see 1796:131), although there is no direct evidence of it. j (1796) 57 ’ 127. Aug 22 From Mosely, STC writes Josiah Wade, TP, John Prior Estlin: His activities in and around Darley since Aug 7 l(see 1796:116)., Tells. Wade about the suggestion of William Roscoe that has come to him through Mr. Edwards, that "a j comfortable situation" may be procured for him in Liver pool.42 Expects to see TP "in the course of a month...if i Sara will let me."43 (CL I #138,139,140.) j i 128. Aug 29 ([-between Dec 31, 1796 and Jan 6, 1797]) I STC, [SC] return to Bristol from Mosely. He is to re-j main here till Nov, when the plan suggested by Dr. Crompton ! in Darley (the day school) is to begin. (Actually, he re- I mains till Dec 31, 1796, when he moves into the house at Nether Stowey. See 1796:199.) (CL I #139.) 129. [Sept] j "On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life" first pub- : lished. (MM II, Sept 1796; PW I, 152; GCL 13. It is pub lished with the lines "souls blending together like two dew-; drops meeting on a flower." See variatim CL I #134; AP 6; CN I #142. See also Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, Oct 8, I 1796.) 130. Sept 2 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol; Borrowings 123.) 131. [Probably Sept 11-17] STC receives a letter from Charles Lloyd: His parents have given permission for him to live with STC in Bristol. Will STC come to see his father for three or four days? (CL I #142.) 132. Sept 16 I STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol; Borrowings 123.) | 42Nothing more is heard of this. i 43There is no record that this trip occurred— indeed, i the evidence seems against it (see 1796:143,145)— though Hanson (123) assumes it was taken. The only possible times i would have been between Aug 29 and Sept 4 (see CL I #141), | or Sept 4 and Sept 16. j (1796T 58 1133. Sept 17 (-Sept 20) I i i ; j i The night of Sept 17 STC goes in the mail coach to j 'Birmingham to visit the Lloyds. Arrangements are made for jCharles Lloyd to live with him (see CL I #142 nl, p.236 on jthis). (He remains until Sept 20, when word comes that jHartley has been born, and he returns to Bristol immediately jwith Charles Lloyd. See 1796:135,136.) j 134. [1796, probably after Sept 17] . STC writes "To a Young Friend..." (PW I, 155-57; i CL I #142; 1796:133; GCL 15.) 135 Sept 19 ! David Hartley Coleridge is born, STC's first child. i (CL I #142.) i 136. Sept 20 | STC receives word of the birth of Hartley; returns to j Bristol from Birmingham, bringing with him Charles Lloyd | (see 1796:133). He sees Hartley for the first time. (CL i #142.) 137. [Between Sept 20 and Nov 1, 1796] STC writes three sonnets on the birth of Hartley. (PW I, 152-54; see 1796:161; CL I #146; GCL 16,17,18.) i 138. [After Sept 20 and before Dec 11, 1796] STC writes his lines "Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune." (PW I, 157-158; GCL 20.) j | 139. Sept 22 j ! i ! STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 123.) j 140. [Probably 1796, Sept 22-Oct 12] ; STC records the following in his notebook: j a. Lines that appear in "The Destiny of Nations." ; (CN I #180 and n; "Vision of the Maid of Orleans" I (1796); "Destiny of Nations" 1. 140: PWiI,137; i GCL 7.) | i b. A phrase from Psalm 44:25 used variatim in "Ode toj n ' ..... ’..“ "....... ' ......... (1796)59 ' ! the Departing Year" 1. 6. (CN I #259 (a) and n; PW I, 160; 1796:193,194,196; GCL 21.) j ; i c. A note from Ecclesiasticus 25:1, used variatim in] "Ode to the Departing Year" 1. 73. (CN I #265 and n; j PW I, 164; 1796:193,194,196; GCL 21.) j : i d. A note from Ecclesiasticus 40:6, on one who is soj troubled that in his sleep he is like one keeping I watch; used in "Ode to the Departing Year" (but see DA, 240). (CN I #267 and n; "Ode to the Departing ! Year" stanza VI: PW I, 116; 1796:193,194,196; GCL 21.), e. A note on singing a song in praise to God, from Ecclesiasticus 47:8; used in "Fears in Solitude." (CN I #268 and n; PW II, 994 Frag 41; "Fears in Soli- : tude" 196-7: PW I, 263. See 1798:101; GCL 48.) ] f. A note on the soul as the image of God, sister of.j the cherubim. A similar idea appears in "Ode to the j Departing Year" 11. 151-61. (CN I #272 (g) and n; I PW IT, 994 Frag 42; cf. PW I, 168. See 1796:193,194, | 196; GCL 21.) j g. Note from one of Jeremy Taylor's sermons used in last line of "Ode to the Departing Year." (CN I #272 ] (y) and n; PW, 168: 1. 161. See DA, 241 on this line. GCL 21; 1796:193,194,196.) 141. Sept 24 i STC writes TP from Bristol: His trip to the Lloyds' I (see 1796:133), and the birth of Hartley (see 1796:135). C. Lloyd has moved in; may STC, Lloyd visit TP within the week? STC's "heart is heavy respecting Derby, and he seeks ; advice." Even thinking of losing TP's friendship makes him; "shiver— as though some tender part of my Nature were left j uncovered and in nakedness." (CL I #142. For the line "shivers... in nakedness," see 1796:10; GCL 13; PW I, 152.) 142. [1796, shortly after Sept 24] j Charles Lloyd, Sr. writes to Robert Lloyd: Charles ; has gone to Bristol to study under STC, "a very sensible, religious man and an extraordinary poet, who was educated for a clergyman, but for conscience sake declined that ! office." (CLL, 20.) < I 143. [Between Sept 24 and Oct 15] ] j i ; j [Sometime during this time] STC decides for various reasons to give up the idea of the school in Derby .and . . . 1 ■ ........ ' '..■ ------------ ----' :....'' - (1796) 60 ; instead to take a house at Adscombe, near TP in Nether j Stowey and spend his time tutoring C. Lloyd and writing; j |[this decision makes a trip to TP's seem likely about this j time.] STC writes TP to this effect on Sept 24. (CL I j | #142,144; Poole I, 174; 1796:145.) j 144. Sept 26 | ! ! TP writes STC from Stowey: TP's pledge of support toj STC. Congratulations on the birth of Hartley. C. Lloyd's j ;stay with STC; invitation for STC, Lloyd to visit Stowey. | TP "will send horses to Bridgwater" [sic]. (Poole I, : 160-61; see CL I #142; 1796:145.) i j ;145. [Between Sept 26 and Oct 1] J [There is no record of an STC visit to TP during thisj time, but one is possible, as his letter of Sept 24 (see | 1796:141) indicates that one was intended— or at least re- i quested, to discuss the plan for a school at Derby. [Ap- | iparently on TP's advice,] the plan is abandoned. (CL I #142; see 1796:123,128; CL I #146. Hanson, again, assumes the trip was taken (126).) I 146. Sept 27 j Lamb writes STC: He has given up writing poetry, but! gives STC permission to publish his poems anonymously in j the second edition of STC's Poems. (LL I #8; CL I #143; 1796:171; GCL 31.) [STC may visit the Bristol Library,] although the book checked out in his name on this day is in Cottle's hand. (Bristol Borrowings 123.) 147. [1796, after Sept 27] j STC writes "To a Friend Who Had Declared His Inten- j tion of Writing No More Poetry." It is published in a j Bristol newspaper in aid of a subscription for the family j of Robert Burns. (PW I, 158-59; GCL 22.) j ! • t 148. [1796, probably after Sept] | During the period of Charles Lloyd's stay, STC con- j tributes to Lloyd's memorial volume on his grandmother, j Priscilla Farmer (Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer, j 1796). STC contributes "Sonnet: to Charles Lloyd" j (PW I, 155; GCL 19), j i 149. [Oct] i : • i "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement"___j ................“ ........."... ..■ ..‘...'.... (1796) 61 published. (MM, Oct 1796; PW I, 106-08; GCL 6.) | i . ! I150. Oct 8 j | "On a Late Connubial Rupture in High Life" published. ; | (Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, Oct 8/ 1796. The line j i"souls blending together like two dewdrops meeting on a |flower" appears in this version. PW I, 152. For variatim i I appearances of this line, see GCL 13.) !151. Oct 12 STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 123.) > 152. Oct 15 STC writes to Charles Lloyd, Sr. from Bristol: The Derby plan has been given up (see 1796:123,128); there is a new plan now, to move near TP. STC enjoys the associa tion with Charles Lloyd, Jr. STC has decided to give up his political interests: "I have... snapped my squeaking ; baby-trumpet of sedition." (CL I #144.) 153. [Between Oct 15 and probably 25] STC goes to visit TP at Nether Stowey. (CL I #145; 1796:155; CL I #146.) There is no record of his arrival or; departure. (See 1796:158.) 154. [1796, Oct 17] Lamb writes STC: STC's unsettled plans. (LL I #10.) 155. Oct 18 STC writes Cottle from Nether Stowey: The omission ;of certain poems from the new edition; an attempt to con vince Cottle that STC's motives are not mercenary. (CL I #145; Cottle:Rec I, 208-09; GCL 31.)44 156. [1796, between Oct 18 and probably 25] STC writes Dr. Crompton, cancelling the idea of the Cottle had offered to give STC 20 guineas for a new jedition of 500, no doubt reminding him of his generosity, ! isince Cottle owned the copyright. This edition was not j ready until June of 1797 (see 1797:65); [not published till; the end of Oct] (see 1797:113. But see also 1797:41n.) ; .. ............. ..... ■ ... (1796) 62; i jday school in Derby (see 1796:123), and receives "a very jkind Letter" in return. (See CL I #146.) j 1157. Oct 24 | ! I i Lamb begins a letter to STC: The lack of proper re- I jligious humility in STC's Sept 28 letter, [and in another ! isince then that has not been preserved.] (LL I #11; CL I #143.) j 158. Oct 25 | STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bris- j tol Borrowings 124.) I 159. Oct 28 j i Lamb continues his Oct 24 letter to STC (see j 1796:157): The STC-RS quarrel; hopeful of STC's coming to ! London again; the Nether Stowey plan: "You seem to have J set your heart upon this same cottage plan; and God prosper j you in the experiment!" (LL I #12.) j ‘ ' ! 160. [Possibly c Nov-Dee 1796] • . i STC records notes on wrath-fires, great darkness, andi things that counterfeit infinity— may be connected with the| :"Ode to the Departing Year." (CN I #272 (7) and n, #273 j and n; RX 191, esp. 517-19, nl03; CL #209; cf. "Ode to the j Departing Year" 11. 58-9: PW I, 163; Ibid 141-2: PW I, I 168; GCL 21; 1796:193,194,196.) ; ; I 161. Nov 1 STC writes TP from Bristol: Concerned at not yet having heard from Cruikshank regarding the house at Ads- combe;45 fears the arrangement may not materialize (CL I j I#146). Mentions the second edition of his Poems (GCL 31); ; discusses the order of the poems; refers to the poem later j called "the Destiny of Nations." (Not published till 1817. ! See CL I, 243 nl; GCL 7 on the history of the poem.) En- ] closes the three sonnets on the birth of Hartley (PW I, 152-154; GCL 16-18.)46 45John Cruikshank was Lord Egmont's agent, in charge j of attempting to rent the house for STC from Lord Egmont j i (Poole I, 174). | 46 TP's answer to this letter has not been preserved (Poole I, 175. See CL I #151; 1796:175.) j (1796) 63 1162. Nov 2 | STC, from Bristol, writes Benjamin Flower, in Cam- j jbridge: Will Flower negotiate with Lunn and Deighton for j their publication of the second edition of his Poems? i (CL I #147; GCL 31.) | 163. [1796, Nov 2] j ; _ I At night in Bristol, STC becomes very ill with a ner-j vous disorder that is very painful. (CL I #151.) i I 164. [1796, Nov 3] j STC writes both Cottle and RS about his illness (see i 1796:163, CL I #151), He cannot see Cottle this day be cause of the illness. (CL I #148,149.) 165. Nov [4] STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 124.) j 166. [1796, Nov 5] j STC writes Cottle: He remains ill and therefore can-j not see Cottle yet. He is taking laudanum— "every four hours, 25 drops each dose."47 (CL I #150.) i 167. [1796] Nov 5 j STC writes TP: Detailed description of his illness (see 1796:163,164,166). Is still concerned about not having heard from Cruikshank (see 1796:161), and hopeful that he ! can rent "three rooms in Bill Poole's large House for the winter," until the Adscombe cottage is ready. (CL I #151; j see CL I #146; 1796:161.) i 1168. [1796] Nov 7 STC is somewhat recovered from his illness (see 1796:163). Receives a letter from Cruikshank in the morning, writes TP telling about it in the afternoon. He does not say what information the letter from Cruikshank contains regarding the cottage at Adscombe (see 1796:161). ^7The indication here is that the laudanum is for medical reasons only. '................ (1796) 64 |(CL I #152.)48 ! i 169. Nov 8 | I ! Lamb writes STC: STC's poor health and other prob- j lems; STC's recently sent verses (probably his three sonnets on the birth of Hartley: PW I, 152-54; GCL 16-18.) j 170. Nov 9 | STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Borrowings 124.) ! 171. Nov 14 ! j Lamb writes STC: STC's dedication of the 1797 Poems j to Bowles;48 Lamb's dedication of his contributions to his | sister; the sonnets as Lamb's farewell to his love; the j value and virtue of familial love; STC's reconciliation witli his family. (LL I #14.) 172. [Probably late 1796] i i STC records the following notebook entries: i a. A note from the Psalms and the Apocrypha that seems to suggest the "Ode to the Departing Year." i (CN I #173 and n; "Ode to the Departing Year," i stanza V: PW I, 165; GCL 21; 1796:193,194,196.) ■ : j b. A note on dream psychology, a subject which oc curs in "Christabel" and Osorio. (CN I #188 and n; "Christabel": PW I, 232,228; note on Act IV of ! Osorio: PW II, 565; GCL 23,43.) c. A seminal idea on the loved one becoming like the ! loved object— appears later in BL. (CN I #189 and n; j BL II, 259.) j d. A note on sleep in the paradisaical state, re- j fleeting an interest in paradise, which reappears in i "Kubla Khan." (CN I #191 and n; "Kubla Khan"; j GCL 33.) I 48The letter must not have been encouraging; STC never rented the house. 49 He dedicated the volume finally to his brother George. (1796) 65 j e. A thought on dwelling among the tombs in this ! world, which reappears in "Destiny of Nations," (1796) | (11. 176-8: PW I, 137. CN I #194; GCL 7.) | ' i f. A phrase on a holy leader, indicating a thought ! which may be connected with "Fears in Solitude," j (11. 100-04, Apr 1798: PW I, 259. CN I #195 and n; ! I GCL 48.) ! g. A thought on fierce vivacity firing the eye of genius, which may be connected with "The Destiny of ' Nations." (11. 257-58: PW I, 139. CN I #194; GCL 7.) h. A note on the birthpangs of nature, which appears j in the "Ode to the Departing Year." (1796, 11.33-37: PW, I 161; PW 11, 991, Frag 26. CN I #199 and n; GCL 21.) i. A thought on distempered dreams' anguish that later appears, variatim, in "Ode to the Departing j Year" and "The Nightingale." ("Ode to the Departing Year", 1. 15: PW I, 161; "The Nightingale," Apr 1798: PW I, 69; E. K. Chambers, E&S XIX (1933), 100. CN I ! #205 and n; GCL 21,45.) j. Note on a strong voice from a thunder-cloud that seems to indicate connection with "Ode to the De parting Year." (PW I, 164n, esp. 1797 and 1803 variants. CN I #207 and n; GCL 21.) 173. Nov 13 j STC writes John Thelwall from Bristol: Discussion of ; a plan concerning "the origin of Property & the mode of re- j moving it's [sic] evils." STC approves of the plan. (CL I ! #153.) 174. Nov 14 i STC writes Charles Lloyd, Sr.: His defense of the plan to move to Adscombe (see 1796:143). Explains his rea sons and outlines the scheme of the younger Charles' studies. Charles, Jr. is also ill, has been treated by Dr. Beddoes. (CL I #154.) 175. Nov 15 j STC writes TP at 5:30 p.m. from Bristol: Has written i TP twice since the receipt of TP's last letter; has been at i the post office every evening for a week hoping to hear froirj him regarding STC' s idea of renting ..rooms from William. Poole (1796)66 ■for the winter (1796:167), and STC is concerned. Charles iLloyd has been very ill. (CL I #155.) I | | 1176. [1796] Nov 19 j STC, from Bristol, writes John Thelwall in London: There have been two poems of STC's in MM, under his name. j |He never publishes anything anonymously (but see 1796:59). j iRemarks "I am a so-so-chemist, and I love chemistry." (But j see 1801:19; CL II #378.) j j 177. Nov 25 I STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol! Borrowings 124.) ! i 178. [1796, Nov 28] STC writes TP from Bristol: TP should rent the house ; near him at Stowey for STC, who wishes to move in in three weeks, "for we must quit our house on Christmas day, & it will be awkward to take Lodgings for a week— and expen sive."50 (CL I #157.) 179. [Early Dec] I [STC probably receives from Benjamin Flower, editor of the Cambridge Intelligencer, a commission to provide some verses for "the last day of this year."] (CL I #167; PW I, 160-68; GCL 21.)51 180. [1796, c Dec 2] j STC writes Cruikshank from Bristol: If he is unable ; to secure the house at Adscombe, STC can probably purchase j it through friends in Bristol.5^ j Lamb writes STC: Projected omissions in STC's 1797 Poems; Lamb's missing STC; suggestion of a substitution of ' "sonnet" for "effusion" in the Poems; SC's poetry. (LL I #15; GCL 31.) j 50TP has evidently written STC asking whether to rent ; a certain house near himself, and doubting whether it will be suitable. The house at Adscombe did not materialize. (See 1796:161,168.) I 5;LThe "Ode to the Departing Year." See DA 239; GCL 21: for a discussion of the composition of the poem. S 52Stc purchases no house through friends in Bristol, i ........... (1796) 67 : ! > • i 181. [1796/ Dec. 3 ] j I ! ! STC dines with the Kings in Bristol. (CL I #160.)^3 j 182. Dec 4 STC writes Charles Lloyd, Sr. from Bristol: His new employment, plus the necessity of learning "practical hus- j bandry & horticulture" at Nether Stowey, will prevent his j having time to tutor Charles Lloyd, Jr. any longer. If Lloyd is to stay on, it will be as "Lodger and Friend" rather than as student. (CL I #158.)^4 183. [1796, Dec 5] Lamb writes STC: Enclosure— "To a Young Lady Going ! Out to India," possible publication in 1797 Poems;*5 also "The Tomb of Douglas." Lamb is "done with verse-making." j ; (LL I #16.) 184. Dec 8 STC writes John Colson from Bristol: He expects to j move from Bristol "within ten days." TP is absent from | Nether Stowey at this time, in London (CL I #160); STC tells Colson to "give my kind Love to him. His absence from Stowey is an unfortunate thing for me." (CL I #159.) 185. [Dec 9] | Lamb writes STC: Discussion of various poems, esp. Priscilla Farmer volume; STC is "soon to move." (LL I #17; 1 GCL 19.) i 186. Dec 10 Lamb writes STC: Lamb's thanks for STC's recent let-: ter (unpreserved); Lamb's attitude toward writing poetry; the preservation of STC's letters; the poetry of Bowles andj Burns. (LL I #18.) 53The Kings are TP's sister and brother-in-law. 54STC's "new employment" is his writing assignments with the Critical Review and MM. See Hanson 135 for a dis-j cussion of the reasons behind this letter of STC's. | 3 3 T h e poem is not included. (1796)68 |187. [Probably shortly before or after Dec 11, 1796] i STC records in his notebook lines referring to scat- j Itered leaves similar to lines in "To a Young Man...Melan- J icholy," which was sent in a letter to Benjamin Flower ! [Dec 11], (CN I #60; "To a Young Man. . .Melancholy": PW I, i -157-8; CL I #161; GCL 20; 1796:188.) j 188. [1796, Dec 11] ! i STC, from Bristol, writes TP in London: STC has dined with the Kings (see 1796:181); has decided not to tutor j Charles Lloyd (see 1796:182); and he is going to cultivate his own property at the new house. Wishes "that little j Cottage by the road side were gettable..." (see 1796:189). [On this day, or perhaps the day before,] TP is j writing STC, insisting on the unsuitability of the cottage. ! (See CL I #162; 1796:189.) ! STC writes Benjamin Flower at Cambridge: "Before the I 24th of this month I will send you my poetic endeavor..."56 j He is moving to Nether Stowey "at the close of this week..." Encloses "To a Young Man of Fortune" (PW I, 157-58; GCL 20.)! (CL I #160.) 189. [c Dec 12] STC has received TP's letter (see 1796:188). j STC writes TP from Bristol: His defense of his plan to settle at Stowey, as Stowey is the only place in which he can receive instruction in agriculture. He has not heard from Cruikshank, in answer to his letter of Dec 2. (See | 1796:180.) ! This same night he begins a second letter to TP: The I same subject, in greater detail and with more feeling. He has been hurt by TP's suggestion. He and family must leave j the house in Bristol a week from Wednesday (Dec 21) . (CL I j #162; EKC36.) (The letter is completed Dec. 13. See 1796:190.) 190. Dec 13 j I ; ‘ i STC completes the letter to TP begun the previous ' evening (see 1796:189): His continuing desire to go to j Nether Stowey. Charles Lloyd will remain with him as lodgeri for a year. He prefers agriculture to literature. "The Visions of the Maid of Orleans" will be included in the 1797; 5®The "Ode to the Departing Year"? (See GCL 21.) (1796) 69 jPoems. He expects it to go to press "in about a w e e k ."57 j X C i r r # 1 6 3 ; GCL 7 , 3 1 . ) STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bris- Itol Borrowings 124.) 191. Dec 17 ! STC writes John Thelwall: STC's bad health. His j jplans for residence at Stowey: garden and literature. "I j lam not fit for public life; yet the light shall stream to a far distance, from the taper in my cottage window." Dis cussion of STC's "Sonnet, Composed on a Journey Homeward" > : (PW I, 153; GCL 17)5. Thelwall's verses in the last MM. : Thelwall's contempt of Christianity. Encloses a trans cription of STC's "Sonnet" (PW I, 157; GCL 20): "I love sonnets; but upon my honor I do not love iw sonnets"; and of the "Joan of Arc" (later published as 1TThe Destiny of Nations," PW I, 131-47; GCL 7), and "To a Friend" (PW I, 158-59; GCL 21). (CL I #164.) ; "Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune" first pub lished. (Cambridge Intelligencer; PW I, 157-58; GCL 20.) 192. Dec 18 STC is ill. He writes TP: Plans for moving to I Nether Stowey; expects to move the 21st or 22nd, his wife a^ week or two later (see 1796:200). (CL I #166.) [STC sends a copy of Sonnets from Various Authors to | Mrs. Thelwall]; inscribes the fly-leaf of the volume to her. (CL I #1 6 5.)58 193. Dec 24 Joseph Gill notes expenditure of lOd for DW's "Diary.'' (See Evans and Pinney 17.) 194. [Dec 24 (-Dec 26)] STC begins composition of "Ode to the Departing Year" [probably oh Dec 24, completes it Dec 26], (CL I #167; 1796:195; PW I, 160-68, 160 nl; GCL 21.) 57It does not go to press until the end of June 1797. (See 1797:58 and n65.) 58This volume was published this year by STC on paper evidently left over from the Watchman. It included four !sonnets by Lamb, four by STC," and twenty by Bowles, Lloyd, RS and others. (Wise, p. 32.) ! ..■ ...................'... ' ' ..... ' (1796) 70] | | 1195. [Dec 25] ! I ■ | [Probably on this day] STC continues work on his 1 1 Ode j jto the Departing Year." (CL I #167; 1796:194,197; GCL 21.) | i ! ! 196. Dec 26 ■ j At Bristol, STC writes the dedicatory letter to TP ! that appears as preface to the "Ode to the Departing Year" j jwhen published as a pamphlet. (CL I #167.) ' ! |197. [Dec 26] j i STC is sick in bed [evidently on this day.] (CL I #167.) ' He also completes "Ode to the Departing Year" [pro bably on this day.] (He began it [probably Dec 24.]) CL I #167; 1796:194,195; GCL 21.)59 I * 198. (1796, Dec 27] ; i STC, [though apparently still in bed,] is beginning 5 |to improve from his illness. Still in Bristol, he writes RS to thank him for a copy of his 1797 Poems, and to criti- ; cize the poetry. STC intends to leave Bristol the 29th (see 1796:200). 199. Dec 30 STC, still in Bristol, writes John Prior Estlin: He j is going to Stowey with SC "tomorrow" (Dec 31). (CL I #169; 1796:200.) ; 200. Dec 31; [after Jan 2 (-Jan 16 or shortly thereafter)] : From Bristol, STC writes John Thelwall: RS's poetry | (1797 Poems). STC finds it generally very good, but not j great. His quarrel with RS: they are reconciled, but STC still does not love RS. Mentions Plato's "gorgeous non- •sense") (but see CL I #197; 1797:72). j STC, SC move from Bristol to Nether Stowey. (CL I j #169.)60 [Charles Lloyd probably goes with them. Sometimej after Jan 2, he goes to visit Lamb in London; returns to 590n Dec 26 he says he has been working on the "Ode" j for the last three days. j fin ' See Minnow, 75 for SC's opinion of the Stowey cot- j Itage. See also Poole I, 200-02 for a detailed description |and Mrs. Sandford's impression of it; also Hanson 145. j Hanson (154) says that George Burnett became a. "constant I i ' “ ■ -.. “.... (1796) 71 j jNether Stowey Jan 16 or shortly thereafter.] (See LL I #19 11797:4; LL I #21; 1797:8.) "Ode to the Departing Year" first published. (Cam bridge Intelligencer; issued simultaneously as a quarto ipamphlet. PW I, 160-68; GCL 21.) ivisitor" to the Stowey cottage. It seems strange, if this is the case, that the only Burnett visit mentioned in the documents of the time is the one of c Aug 19 (see 1797:87). 1797 1. [Sometime during 1797] [Probably sometime during 1797,] at the home of TP, j STC meets TW, who has come to Somersetshire to be near ; Dr. Beddoes. (Poole I, 253; see 1797:100.) 2. [1797, Jan] ! On the back of a prospectus of his course of six lec tures on the English Rebellion and the French Revolution, to begin on June 23, 1795, STC scribbles what appears to be j an invitation to TP to come to dinner. (CL I #171.) 3. Jan | [Sometime during this month] STC writes John Prior Est- lin: His situation in Nether Stowey. "You see, I ought to j be happy— & thank God, I am so. — 1 1 (CL I #173.) . i 4. [1797, Jan 2] ; ' i Lamb writes STC: Positive criticism of "Ode to the De-j parting Year"; STC's move to Nether Stowey (see 1796:200); letters from C. Lloyd. (LL I #19; GCL 21.) 5. [1797, Jan 6] From Nether Stowey, STC writes Cottle in Bristol: In structions concerning the upcoming second edition of his Poems. Details of pagination, organization, and alteration.! :The STC family are safely moved into the house in Nether ! Stowey. Intends sending "Destiny of Nations" to W and Lamb j for criticism. (CL I #172; GCL 31,7.) 6. [1797, Jan 10] | Lamb writes STC: Further criticism of "Ode to the De parting Year" (GCL 21); STC's situation at Stowey— "and what does your worship know about farming?"; STC's potential :for an epic poem; request for copies of the Poems (GCL 11). j (LL I #20.) The letter is completed the following day i (1797:7). ! 72 ] " " " "......... ~..... ' ....... (1797).73 ) j I 7. [1797, Jan 11] ! Lamb continues his letter to STC begun the previous ! ftay (1797:6): Lamb's loneliness; request for information regarding STC's life at Stowey? Bishop Berkeley? STC's pro-! jected Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion (see |1796:84)? Lloyd and RS. (LL I #20.) i ; ■ j 8. [1797, Jan 16] Lamb writes STC: Charles Lloyd's present visit at Lamb's? Lamb's poem on the occasion? his wish for STC's presence. (LL I #21.) 9. [Probably very shortly after Jan 16 (-c Jan 25)] Charles Lloyd arrives back at Nether Stowey. His room at STC's is not ready, so he spends till [c Jan 25] with TP, moving into STC's at that time. (CLL 38.)1 10. [1797, Feb 4] STC receives, [probably from William Linley (cf. CL I #211)], a letter reporting that Richard Brinsley Sheridan wishes him to compose a tragedy. (CL I #175.) 11. [Between Feb 4 and Oct 14, 1797] STC writes Osorio. (PW I, 183-85? GCL 23.) 12. [1797, early Feb] STC writes Cottle from Stowey: Continued work on "The\ Destiny of Nations." (CL I #177; GCL 7.) ! 13. [Feb 5] Lamb writes STC: Severe criticism of STC's "Destiny of Nations" (GCL 7)? "Religious Musings" is "the noblest poem in the language" after Paradise Lost. Possible sub jects for an STC epic poem: the origin of evil,2 or "the description [possibly from a vision or dream] of. an Utopia j ^C. Lloyd gives the impression in his Feb 2 letter to ! his brother (CLL 38) that he has been at Stowey since about j : Jan 14, but if he was still in London with Lamb on the 16th; jas indicated by LL I #21 (see 1797:8), he could not have jarrived till after that date. ! • I 2gee cdj I #1770 for another reference to this subject, i ! ' ~ .. (1797) 74 ' I * ! ~ in one of the planets (the Moon, for instance)."-3 (LL I {#22.) | 14. Feb 6 | i i 1 STC writes for TP at Nether Stowey the first of a ! series of autobiographical letters. (See 1797:21,107,110> | ;1798:49; CL I #174 nl, p.302.) STC writes Richard Brinsley Sheridan accepting his suggestion on the composition of a tragedy. (CL I #175; i PW I, 182-85; GCL 23.) STC writes John Thelwall: Thelwall's work; recom mendation that he take up country life; STC's happiness at Stowey. (CL I #176.)4 15. [Feb 6] ! i Lamb continues his [Feb 5) letter to STC: Rogers' j reaction to STC's criticism of his "Pleasures of Memory." (LL I #22; 1797:13.) 16. [1797, c Feb 10] j [By this day] STC has received Lamb's criticisms of I "The Destiny of Nations" (see 1797:13). In a letter to Cottle [of this day], he is very discouraged; does not in tend to finish the poem. Also seems discouraged with the I "Ode to the Departing Year." (CL I #178; GCL 7,21.) j 17. Feb 10 ■ i STC writes to Lamb from Stowey a letter that has not ! been preserved.^ i 18. Feb 13 I Lamb writes STC: Further comment on STC's lines which! became "The Destiny of Nations" (GCL 7). (LL I #23.) j 19. [Probably before Feb 27, 1797] i i STC records in his notebook an abridged quotation from j •^On dream-vision poetry, see 1797:116n for the compo- I sition of "Kubla Khan"; 1797:36 for a vision poem of Lamb's.j ; ’ i 4For the probable results of the gardening project, see TT for July 27, 1830. j c j Probably one of many such. Each letter of Lamb's to i STC was probably in response to one, from STC. __ j j — - ...... ~..- ...-.. • (1797) 75 | jJonathan Richardson's Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Mil- 'ton's Paradise Lost (1734) .& The quotation appears in the JPreface to the 1797 Poems, dated "Feb. 27, 1797." (CN I i#272 and n; GCL 31.) 20. Feb 27 STC writes the Preface to his 1797 Poems. (Poems ; (1797); GCL 31.) 21. [1797, Mar 5, 12, 19 or 26]7 STC writes another in the continuing series of letters Ion his life to TP. This one discusses his family— his bro thers and sisters and their occupations. (CL I #179; see ; 1797:14,107,110; 1798:49.) 22. [c Mar 6-15] Charles Lloyd is very ill, and STC is worried about him. (CL I #181,182.) 23. [1797, before Mar 10] STC writes "To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theater" (PW I, 171-72; GCL 24), and "To an Unfortunate Woman" (PW I 172-73; GCL 25). 24. [1797, Mar 10] [Probably from Stowey], STC writes Cottle, again dis-. cussing the second edition of the Poems (GCL 31). He has decided that he has "no genius" to write the tragedy sug gested by Robert.Sheridan (see 1797:10; GCL 23). Sends a new preface to use with the second edition of the Poems (see 1797:20). Includes "To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theater" (PW I, 171-72; GCL 24), "Allegorical Lines on the Same Subject" (published as "To an Unfortunate Woman": PW I, 172-73; GCL 25.) 25. [1797, Mar 14] STC is up all night with Charles Lloyd, who is very ill. (CL I #181.) Available in Early Lives of Milton, ed. Helen Darbi- shire (1932), quotation on pp. 315-16. ?The letter is dated only "Sunday March 1797." |26. [1797, Mar 15] 1 f ! STC writes Cottle from Nether Stowey: Last minute re-j ^visions of some of the poems in the up-coming edition. ;Charles Lloyd is very ill (see 1797:25). (CL I #181; | GCL 31.) ;27. Mar 16 j I STC writes Josiah Wade from Stowey: Wade is settling iin Bristol. (CL I #182.) ;28. [1797, Mar 16] j : I [Probably from Stowey,] STC writes William Lisle i Bowles: Bowles' sonnets. STC's plan for a tragedy is still Iin a chaotic state (1797:10; GCL 23). (CL I #183.) j t : i 29. [Between Mar 16 and Mar 23 (-between Mar 23 and 29 or ! 30)] I : j [After Mar 16 and at least by Mar 23,] STC goes from Stowey to Bristol to attend to the publication of his 1797 | Poems. (CL I #183,184,185 and n3, p.319.) (He returns j [probably sometime between Mar 23 and Mar 29 or 30 (MRWC i '195-96 :n9; 1797:32).] While in Bristol, [shortly before j or after Mar 23, he possibly sees W there, on the latter's j visit from Racedown.] (W left Racedown Mar 19 and expected; to stay "about a fortnight.") (EY #65.)8 j 30. [1797, probably before Mar 23] ! Charles Lloyd leaves Nether Stowey. (CL I #184 nl.) 31. Mar 23 j STC is in Bristol, signing for books at the Bristol j Library. (Bristol Borrowings 124.) j 8 " T h i s visit [of W's] to Bristol appears to be the only remotely possible referent of an alleged quotation from a i letter from W to Mathews in JG 74-76: 'To-morrow I am going to Bristol to see those two extraordinary young men, Southey and Coleridge.' Gillman's statement that the letter was | written from Alfoxden is clearly impossible, and Southey is j ■not likely to have been in Bristol now" (see 1797:32n). ' i(MRWC 194 n5.) But see 1795:27, where Shaver dates EY #53 j [late Oct or early Nov], thus removing some of the support | for a W-STC meeting in Mar of 1797. (1797)77 132. [Probably between Mar 23 and Mar 29 or 30, and shortly after f£] ! | STC returns from Bristol to Stowey [probably between Mar 23 (see 1797:29,31) and Mar 29 or. 30. He may go with W" ion the latter's return to Racedown about that time (see 1797:29) , or he may go about a week sooner.9 Possibly he j jis called home by an illness of George: Burnett, who may have been visiting at Stowey (see CL I #186; Poole I, 209). Or j [sometime in late Mar or early Apr he may visit Burnett at j his home in Huntspill (see CL I #186 headnote).] j [If STC returns to Bristol before W, W probably goes ! to Stowey on his return from Bristol c Mar 29 or 30, visits j there briefly. A chance possibly exists that. RS is also | present. STC, W discuss RS's poems.. W meets TP. TP, in the course of a walk, tells STC, W some part of the story of ■John Walford. The poets request TP to draw up the story in ; .writing. STC experiences depression during this time: for ; about "ten days after my arrival at Stowey."] (CL I #184, 185,190; Poole B&B; Moorman I, 310.) 33. [1797, early Apr or c May 26]1° ! STC writes Cottle, [probably from Stowey]: Apologizes! [for not devoting a day to him when in Bristol, because the day intended for Cottle was such a "day of sadness." The ^Mark Reed analyzes the probable time of STC's return | ito Stowey, and of W's visit there: "STC's return to Nether; Stowey perhaps took place about the same time as W's trip , there, if STC's reference to his feeling of depression on 'the Saturday, the Sunday' after his arrival and to W's conversations, evidently of that time, as 'rousing him some-j what' is taken together with (a) W's plan on 19 Mar to re main away from Racedown 'a week or ten days' or 'about a ; jfortnight' (EL 163,165) and (b) the fact that 30 Mar was a Friday (and 31 Mar a Saturday)— although as STC's depression [apparently lasted about a fortnight after his return, the j younger poet could have gone home about a week before W came ;to visit him there. ' "A note with Poole's narrative of 'John Walford' states that the friends at whose request the narrative was written were 'Messrs. Southey and Wordsworth.' Whether the ! note, dated 27 Feb 1833, is Poole's is not clear, and it seems unlikely that Southey was present [see CS 305-11, and j ■above 1797:29n? cf. Poole II, 237.]. Poole himself, however,! ‘ finishes the text of his article with the remark that 'This i narrative was drawn up in March 1797.'" (MRWC 195-96, n9.) ! ! ■ i 10On the dating of this letter, see DA 496 n2. i ......... '; .' .■ .' .... ..... ' (1797) 78 ; i amount of time STC would devote to "an Epic Poem." (CL I ! #184.J11 | j j 34. [1797, c Apr 6] j : I i STC is back in Bristol [evidently on this day], taking| jout the books he signed for Mar 23 (see 1797:31,37,39). ; ■ j 35. Apr 7 I : l I Lamb writes STC: STC's last letter of Feb 10 (see \ 1797:16); remonstrance on such a long silence;12 Charles j ILloyd's health; a recent letter from him— on the point of leaving STC. (LL I #24; 1797:30.) ! 36. Apr 15 Lamb writes STC: Enclosure— "A Vision of Repentance," I to be placed "immediately before the blank verse fragments"; in the 1797 Poems; the mental health of Charles Lloyd. : (LL I #25; GCL 31.) 37. [1797, c Apr 27] I STC at Stowey receives from the Bristol Library a no- i tice that his books, signed for Mar 23 (1797:31), are over-I due. (CL I #187 and nl, p.323; Cottle:Rec I, 210-12.) 38. [1797, May 2] RS writes Joseph Cottle: Request for news of STC's second edition of Poems. (NL 127; GCL 31.) j 39. [1797, c May 6] STC receives a second notice from the Bristol Library ; regarding his books (see 1797:37). [Possibly on this day or shortly thereafter] STC writes the Sub-librarian, G. Cat-: cott: The books were not taken out till a fortnight after | he signed for them; because of the density of the material ■ covered, he needs more time. (Bristol Borrowings 124.) | 110n STC's intellectual destiny, see also 1796:190; CL I #164. On STC's "Sadness," see Hanson 152. 12E. V. Lucas speculates that the reason for this si lence may have been connected with STC's dissatisfaction with Lloyd at this time. (LCL 155-16.) i 40. [1797, c May 10] i ! ' STC, [probably from Stowey], writes Cottle: Request I for patience in relation to the Poems (GCL 31). He has j Iwritten 1500 lines of Osorio; TP praises it highly. (CL I ' #188; GCL 23.) 41. [1797, c May 15] STC decides, [possibly on the recommendation of I Cottle], to dedicate the 1797 Poems to his brother George, | ithe minister from Ottery St. Mary's. STC writes Cottle to this effect. (Cottle:Rec I, 147; CL I #189; GCL 3 1.)-^ i 42. May 26 At Stowey, STC writes "To the Rev. George Coleridge," the dedication to the 1797 Poems. (PW I, 173-75; GCL 26.) 43. [1797, probably late May] j STC writes "On the Christening of a Friend's Child." (PW I, 176-77; GCL 27.) 44. [1797 (EHC dating.)] STC writes "Translation of a Latin Inscription by the | Rev. W. L. Bowles in Nether-Stowey Church." (PW I, 177; ! GCL 28.) 45. [Probably 1797, June 4] i STC preaches for Dr. Howell, the Unitarian minister at Bridgewater. (CL I #191; Poole I, 231.) 46. June 4 i i RS from Christ Church to Thomas Southey: His plan to l^Mrs. Sandford in Poole I, 212 says that the 1797 Poems appears this month— a clear impossibility, since STC j is still sending in corrections in late June (see 1797:58; l CL I #194). Wise, 39 says, on the basis of an advertisement in MP for Oct 28, that publication did not occur till that date. RS, however, in NL 134, CS 319 (see 1797:68), writes j On July 11 as though publication has already occurred, per- i haps in late June-early July; and in [Sept] C. Lloyd writes j his brother that the poems have "just come out" (1797:94; CLL 43)— he even tells where copies may be purchased. It is; difficult to know how to reconcile the conflicting evidence.j | ....... r .... ' ' ....... (1797) BO i I j jomit STC's lines from his Joan of Arc. (WL; 34; GCL 7.) | S ' I !47. [Probably between June 4 and June 7 (-June 28)] j i i ; • I STC arrives at Racedown from Stowey at teatime or be- j fore on a day [probably between June 4 and 7. (He probably j remains until June 28.)] At his arrival, he cuts off an j jangle in the road by leaping over a gate and bounding across a field.14 W's RC is read first; after tea STC repeats two-} and-a-half acts of his Osorio (GCL 23). I The next morning W reads The Borderers. (EY #70,71; ! LY #1584; CL I #190. See 1797:56.T*5 : j :48. [Probably between June 4 and sometime in July] : . j W hands over "The Three Graves" to STC, who would pro- I bably not have known about the poem before this time. (See I WPW I, 374; PW I, 267-84; GCL 29.)16 j 49. [June 4 or sometime in July 1797-c Apr 8, 1798] STC writes "The Three Graves." (PW I, 267-84; GCL 29.)! 50. [Probably June 5] ; i STC has breakfast with Dr. Toulmin, the Unitarian mi- ; nister at Taunton. (CL I #191; Poole I, 231.) j 14DW is much impressed with STC. See her description, ! EY #70. j 1 ^Mark Reed presents well the evidence for the date of j STC's arrival: "Present evidence permits no certainty about the date of STC's arrival. The two facts available seem to j be (a) that he arrived after MH's departure, which took j place 4 June, and (b) that he arrived before Thursday 8 June (CL I, 325). THE CL reference makes extensive mention of I The Borderers; such references must have been inspired by I the reading of the play mentioned in EL 169, and this j reading took place the morning after STC's arrival. So STC I probably arrived at least a day before writing his letter of 8 June." (MRWC 198, nl2.) I I^stc said in The Friend of Sept 21, 1809 that his verses for "The Three Graves" were composed "somewhat more j than twelve years ago," which would point to summer of 1797 j (some work was perhaps later— see 1798:94). i I i j ............ ■ ....■.... *. '.: . (1797) 81 i I * j i51. June 5 | ! ‘ I t TP writes Charles Lloyd: STC's autobiographical ' letters to TP; the progress of Osorio (GCL 23). (Poole I, 1228-30.) 52. June 8 i i ; • j STC writes Cottle from Racedown: He is spending "a j |few days at Racedown" (see 1797:47n). Alterations in his | 1797 Poems (GCL 31); Osorio (GCL 23). Comparison of Shake- i speare and W; W's Borderers. (CL I #190. )-*-^ 53. [1797, June 9] STC writes John Prior Estlin, [probably from Racedown]: He is "finishing" his tragedy (Osorio; GCL 23); W praises it. (CL I #191.) 54. [June 10] STC writes to J. P. Estlin from Racedown: "I shall have quite finished my Tragedy in a day or two." (GCL 23.) In-i tends to secure Bowles' criticism of his play. (CL I #192.) | 55. June 13 Lamb writes STC: Gratefulness for STC's recent letter! (unpreserved); STC's invitation for Lamb to come to Stowey; i Lloyd's contribution to the 1797 Poems; STC's Osorio; the illness of SC, Hartley. (LL I #26; GCL 31,23.) 56. [June 28 (-between June 29 and probably July 2, pos sibly July 1 or 3)] [STC returns to Nether Stowey from Racedown June 28.1 j (Stays till [between June 29 and probably July 2, possibly July 1 or 3].)1 (See 1797:47,60.) (CL I #193.)18 •^For further early STC comments on Shakespeare, see i also PW I, 72-73, n2; Hazlitt XVII, 120-21. • * - 8Reed's conclusion about this return of STC's seems reasonable to me: "STC wrote to Cottle 29 June that he had 'returned from Wordsworth's last night.' It is probable j that he had not returned before this date, although such a j trip is suggested by Campbell and others— for example, EdS DW 72— evidently on the basis of STC's remark of 8 June j (CL I #325) that he meant to be at Stowey by the next Friday (which would have been 16 June). Margoliouth 4 thinks it most likely, as do I, that STC stayed on till the end of the 157. [1797, June 29] Lamb writes STC [possibly only a fragment]: The possi bility of a visit to STC at Stowey next week. (LL I #28.) j 58. [Probably late June] j ; j STC writes Cottle from Stowey: Changes in "Lines on I ithe Man of Ross" for the 1797 Poems. (CL I #194; GCL 31. ; ----------- i 159. [1797, June 29] j STC writes Cottle: Invitation to come to Stowey. STC j expects Lamb "in about a week" (see 1797:67). (CL I #193.) j 60. [Between June 29 and probably July 2, possibly July 1 ! or 3] | [STC returns to Racedown from Nether Stowey.] (He stays till [probably July 2, possibly July 1 or 3].) (CL I I #195,197; 1797:56,64.) I 61. [Probably between June and Sept 1797,] STC records the I following notebook entries that may be connected with I Osorio (GCL 23): j a. A note on a mouth filled with earth so the tongue ! can't stir. (CN I #250; PW II, 994, Frag 40; cf. Osorio III, 259-62: PW*II, 560.) I b. A page of dialogue between Osorio and Sancho. (CN I #251; Osorio III, 242-312: PW II, 560-62.) month. Chronological conclusions based on STC's statements j of his plans are based on shaky evidence." (MRWC 199, nl5.) Shaver in EY (n2, p.190) suggests that this is the occasion of STC's bringing W, DW to visit at Nether Stowey (see j 1797:64). This hardly seems likely: STC does not mention I them in his letter to Cottle of June 29 (CL I #193). Pro bably STC made another trip to Racedown from which he re- I turned with the W's on or about July 2. j ■^These changes come too late (see Cottle:Rec I, 231). j The Poems is ready for publication by the end of this month i (see CL I #195; 1797:65). For a possible discrepancy in I date of publication, see 1797:41n. j !... ■ ..' ...... (1797) 83 j i 1 ,62. [Probably after June.and before Sept 13, 1797] ! STC records the following notebook entries: ■ i ! a. A description of alligators, from Bartram's Travels ! (127-79) that appears to have influenced AM. (CN I #218; PW I, 186-209; RX 513 n76; Chambers E&S (1933) XIX, 102; GCL 35. See CN I #218 general note, #220 n, j for a further discussion of Bartram's influence on AM.)! i ! | b. Hartley falls down and is picked up by STC, who notices the glittering of the moonlight in his tears. The description is used in "The Nightingale" and in "Christabel." (CN I #219 and n, also general note; RX 513 n76; E. K. Chambers E&S (1933) XIX 102,100; "The Nightingale," Apr 1798: PW I, 264; Conclusion to i Pt. I of "Christabel": PW I, 226; GCL 45,80.) c. A note from Bartram on a wilderness plot that ap pears to be connected with "Kubla Khan." (CN I #220 and n; RX 364-70, 513 n76; E. K. Chambers, E&S (1933) XIX, 102; GCL 33.) d. Between entries from Bartram, STC jots down a note describing what is probably Somersetshire furze, which appears in "Fears in Solitude." (CN I #222 and n; "Fears in Solitude," Apr 1798: PW I, 257; GCL 48.) 63. July 1 TW writes William Godwin from Balia in North Wales: A : comprehensive scheme for the improvement of the education of young children. TW would support philosophers to work out the theories, and superintendents to carry them out. For the superintendents, he suggests W and STC, though he has never met either of them. (Erdman 430-33. See 1797:104n.) 64. [Probably July 2, possibly July 1 or 3 (-probably July 16); probably July 2, 1798] STC, [having returned to Racedown], brings W, DW back to Nether Stowey [probably July 2, possibly July 1 or 3. W, DW depart from Nether Stowey probably July 16. They de- i part from the neighborhood finally, probably July 2, 1798.] I (CL I #195,197; EY #72. See 1797:71; 1798:139.) On this period generally, see esp. Moorman I, 321-400. W refers to ; the Alfoxden-Nether Stowey area: Prel2 388-414. ;(Walks with STC on the Quantock Hills; plans for LB. The passage refers esp. to spring 1798.)20 2®Reed's discussion seems to me the best available on : {the difficulties in determining events and dates of this ! {period of time: "STC says that he brought DW back (CL I j j#336) and, elsewhere in the same letter, that he brought W j |and DW back (CL I #334). The conveyance, incidentally, was ! probably Poole's one-horse chaise (see CL I #329,336; Moor-j {man I, 321; Margoliouth 4) . Could W have walked much of the distance? There seems no basis for supposing, in any event,! {that W and DW did not come at the same time. ! "The exact date of the W's arrival at Stowey is not al-| together certain. CL I #330 (following EKC 77) gives it definitely as 2 July, and Margoliouth 4,20, shares this judgment. I would agree with Mrs. Moorman (I, 321n) that {it was 'probably' on 2 July. DW later said in a letter dated 14 Aug (a Monday) that she and W stayed 'a fortnight' i |at STC's cottage before moving to Alfoxden, and that their ; removal to the larger house took place 'a month yesterday' (EL 170-71). But the date of that move is likewise uncer tain. EdS DW 77, EL 170n, and CL I, 332, all indicate be- i {lief that the W's moved on 14 July, Margoliouth 16 suggests j {'probably Sunday 16 July,' a conclusion with which Moorman I, 321 agrees, and which appears to me correct: DW's 14 Aug date cannot be relied upon (W's dating of his letter of j 'Friday, August 16'--EL 171-72— is badly off; see Aug 17). But in her 'month yesterday' she is probably remembering either an exact date (13 July), or a day of the week. On the latter basis, if her 14 Aug date (a Monday) is correct, ; la 'month yesterday' would be Sunday 16 July. Charles Lamb pretty surely left Nether Stowey 14 July [see 1797:69], and j later in the month asked STC (Lamb Letters I, 112) whether W and DW had 'left yet,' a question inappropriate had the W's left within hours of his own departure. Additional evi dence appears in the report of Thomas Jones of Alfoxden to the spy Walsh that he had waited on table at the large din- I ner at W's 'the Sunday after Wordsworth came' (Eagleston I 83). If Jones is accurate— he was no intellectual giant, j but he lived right at Alfoxden House— W could not have moved ; before Sunday 16 July: [see 1797:75]. On the other hand, the move had been made by the 17th, for STC spent the night j at Alfoxden that night (Sandford I, 232-33). The most pro- j bable date for the move, then, seems 16 July, although the | 15th or 17th is not an impossible alternative. j "To return, finally, to the question of the date of the' W's arrival at STC's, the fortnight's visit there which DW j mentions would have begun, if the move to Alfoxden was made | 16 July, on 2 July. One cannot be sure, of course, that DW i means to indicate precisely fourteen days by her phrasing, ! but the assumption seems justified that the arrival was not j before 1 July or after 3 July." (MRWC 199-200, nl6.) j f ' " (1797) 85 j 65. [1797, c July 3] i STC writes to Cottle from Stowey: The W’s are with -him; description of DW in some detail. Also sends a list ! of errata for the 1797 Poems. (CL I ! #195 and nlf p.330; j GCL 31.) | . • • i 66. [1797, July 4] j ; j STC's foot is accidentally scalded by a pan of boiling j milk, [probably on this day.] (CL I #195 nl, p.330; #197; j EKC 77.) ! : ! : i 67. [Probably c July 7-probably July 14] [Probably c July 7, Lamb arrives at Nether Stowey for j a visit. He departs probably July 14. STC's "Lime-Tree j Bower" is written probably during this time or at least by ; c July 17 (see GCL 30)]; it records "a solitary evening spent by STC in Poole's garden, while Charles and the Wordsworths| roamed the Quantock coombs without him" because of his hurt i foot (see 1797:66). (EKC 78; CL I #197; LL I #29, II j #253.)21 j 68. [1797] July 11 i RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn from Burton: Poems by Lloyd, Lamb, STC published together in one volume. (NL 134; GCL 31.) RS writes John May: In praise of STC's 1797 Poems. (CS 319; GCL 31.) • j 69. [Probably July 14] Lamb departs from Nether Stowey. [He had arrived pro-; ibably c July 7. See 1797:67.] He leaves behind his great j coat, which STC still has not returned by the end of Sept j :(LL I, 31; 1797:104). (CL I #197; EKC 78.) j 21"stc remarks that Lamb arrived at Stowey shortly af-j ter the W's, stayed for 'a week'; and left on a Friday morning (CL I, 334). EKC 78 is surely correct in assuming j that Lamb's departure was Friday 14 July; whether his arri-! val was Friday 7 July, as suggested by Chambers, depends onj what STC meant by 'a week.' The 7th seems the best guess."] (MRWC 201, nl8.) See Hanson 159-60 for a discussion of ; "Lime-Tree Bower." I [-' . " (1797)86 170. [Possibly 1797, shortly after July 14] j ! I • j [At an unspecified time shortly after Lamb's visit, ! there is a remote possibility that Cottle visits STC at I Stowey.] (Cottle:Rec I, 274-77; EKC 79.)22 I 71. [Probably July 16 (-probably June 25, 1798)] j ' i [Probably on July 16, W, DW move into Alfoxden House, j (They reside there until probably June 25, 1798.) STC, SC j iperhaps go with them. SC returns to Stowey probably on | July 17; STC probably visits for several days (see 1797:72.)] (See 1797:64n; 1798:139.)23 ! 22The time of the visit is difficult to pinpoint, and ! the visit itself remains in doubt, because of the lack of mention of Cottle in the various letters of the period. Thelwall's visit of July 17-c July 27 is recorded (see 1797:74), also the various visitings back and forth betweeni Stowey and Alfoxden; but no mention is made of Cottle. It | nevertheless seems probable that the visit did occur some time, for Cottle's memories of the experience are quite ex plicit (and he is at some pains to point out that this visit was just after Charles Lamb's.) Mark Reed makes a case fori all of Cottle's separate visits, including this one, taking I place at the same time, and he opts for [probably May 22, 1798] (see Appendix). It nevertheless remains possible, ! though not probable, that Cottle did visit STC shortly after July 14 in 1797. Since STC was definitely at Alfoxden by j July 17 (see Poole I, 232-33; CL I #196,197), if Cottle came he must have gone to Alfoxden, too. Cottle says (Rec I, j 320) that he met W at Alfoxden in 1797. Mark Reed has dis- : missed this as an impossibility, noting that W already knew! Cottle in Jan of 1796 (EY #57; 1796:9). But Cottle could nonetheless have been recalling a meeting with W at Alfox- j den, though not the initial meeting: it could have occurred later, or it could have occurred now. If Cottle came to iStowey on or after July 16, when the W's probably moved to j Alfoxden, he could have gone over to Alfoxden with STC on j !the 16th or 17th and have seen W then. If the W's moved on j the 13th, and STC went with them (see 1797:71), a Cottle j ivisit at this time becomes very unlikely. But if STC did j not go to Alfoxden till the 16th or 17th, Cottle could have j come on the 15th. Given, however, the lack of reference to I Cottle in letters of this time, it seems probable that the ! visit did not occur now. (Cottle says, too, that Charles j Lloyd was present during his visit, a fact which also ap- j pears difficult to substantiate from the available evidence.)’ 23 i Reed says, "The conjecture of Moorman I, 326, that j I - ...... ■ ....-....- . - ....-...-.- .........(1797 r87] 12. [July 17 and very shortly after] STC spends the night of July 17 at Alfoxden, probably i |as part of a visit of several days. STC spends much time j at Alfoxden in the immediate future. [Probably on July 17] j ISTC writes both TP and RS from Alfoxden: Invitation to TP to come and hear "Wordsworth's Tragedy read under the j Trees— " (see 1797:78). Writes RS regarding his work on I The Works of Thomas Chatterton (CL I #196 nl, p.332). "I | am a Berkleian" (but see 1796:200; CL I #170). Includes j ifirst extant version of "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison:" j ! (PW I, 178; also included in a non-extant letter to C. Lloyd of this same month: (PW (JDC), 591. See 1797:67; GCL 30.) ! Recent events at Racedown, Stowey; the composition of "Lime-! Tree Bower." (Poole I, 232-33; CL I #196,197; see 1797:71; I Moorman I, 326-27.) j ! • i 73. [c July 17 ff] j j STC reads a version of W's "Lines Left Upon a Seat in | a Yew-Tree" which contains some version of lines 48ff (on j the subject of contempt). It is thus something approaching| the final form of the poem that STC hears. (CL I #197.) j i 74. July 17 [-by July 27] Thelwall arrives at Stowey, finds STC gone to AlfoxdenJ (Thelwall leaves the area by July 27. See 1797:79.) ! (Poole I, 232; JDC 72 n3.) ! 75. July 18 [-probably c, certainly by July 27] j John Thelwall, who had arrived at Stowey July 17 (see 1797:74), and SC arrive at Alfoxden before breakfast. W, j DW, STC, SC, and Thelwall make "a most philosophical party, ' j jDuring this day, W, STC, and Thelwall ramble near the house^ discussing literature and politics (Poole I, 232-33). [This iramble is probably the occasion of an incident recorded in different versions in TT 103; W "Anecdote for Fathers" IF j note; and Mrs. Andrew Crosse, Red-letter Days of My Life j (London, 1892), 102: Thelwall perhaps remarks that a lovely scene here makes a man forget the jarring and conflicts of j the world— or the necessity of treason. See also CL I #198: this ramble perhaps hurts STC's scalded foot.] j [Thelwall departs from the neighborhood probably c, ISTC went over to Alfoxden when the W's moved there is rea- ; sonable." July 13th remains a possibility for the W move; j a move on the 13th would lessen the likelihood that STC went |with them, in view of the fact that Lamb probably did not | leave till the 14th (see 1797:64n:)_, , ! I ............... ' ; (1797) 88 icertainly by, July 27 (see 1797:79). (On the neighborhood ireaction to this visit of Thelwall's, see Poole I, 235: jCharlotte Poole's remark in her diary. See also WPW V, 471.1 jFor a comment on W, DW at this time, see Thelwall, "Lines j Written at Bridgewater," quoted CL I #200 nl, p.339.)] ! ; | 76. [1797, probably July 19 or 29] I j . i Lamb writes STC: Lamb's recent visit to Stowey (see j 1797:67). (LL I #29.) j ! j 77. [Probably July 21] j W, DW, STC, SC, Thelwall all walk back to Stowey from i Alfoxden. The discussion primarily concerns politics. j (JDC 73; see Moorman I, 327.) [They probably return to Alfoxden shortly thereafter. (See 1797:78.)] ! 78. [Probably July 23] ; [W's The Borderers is perhaps read "under the trees" at: Alfoxden. Later the STC's, TP, Thelwall, Willmott (lessor j of Woodlands), perhaps also Thomas Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Cruik-| shank, and (though not very likely) Basil Montagu, are in- j eluded in a group of 14 people entertained by the W's for I dinner.] (CL I #196; Eagleston 83; Poole I, 235-36; i WSH 52.)24 I 79. [Probably c, certainly by, July 27] | John Thelwall departs from Alfoxden and Stowey. (See Thelwall, "Lines Written at Bridgewater...on the 27th of | July, 1797";; CL I #200; 1797:74.) 80. [1797, probably July 27] ; i STC returns to Stowey from Alfoxden [probably on this j day. He has probably been there since shortly after I duly 21. (See 1797:77,78.) Probably on this day] STC j writes to John Prior Estlin from Stowey, declining what j 24"Meyer's date must be based on Thomas Jones's report; to the spy that he waited on the dinner 'the Sunday after | Wordsworth came' to Alfoxden. Thelwall had not arrived Sun-; day, 16 July, and he was gone well before 30 July. [Eagles-; ton, Poole, CL as cited above; see 1797:79.] STC's note to j iPoole (STCL I, 332) must refer to meat for the dinner (Moor-I jman I, 331-32), and thus must have been written 22 July. I jThe Cruikshanks were to be lessors of Alfoxden after the W's ;(see EL 188); they are mentioned often in STCL." (MRWC 203 j ;n21.).... _.... : .....; ....... ...... .....-.... : ........... - - “--1797) 89 . appears to be an invitation to visit because of his scalded foot. "...if possible, I will ride to Bristol at [the end of the week" (see 1797:84). STC's attitude toward jthe administration of the Lord's Supper: [he is evidently j contemplating a salaried post as Unitarian minister at Nor- j Wich.] (CL I #198; EKC 86.)25 I j i 81. [17]97, Aug 1 | i , | STC, [probably from Stowey], writes Josiah Wade in I Bristol: Encourages Wade to come to Stowey. Describes j Thelwall in great detail. (CL I #200. On Wade and Thel wall, see Poole I, 232.) j : • ‘ 82. Aug 11 ' j G. Walsh, government spy, writes the permanent under secretary of the state about frequent visitors at Alfoxden, i !and about late rambles and inquiries concerning local topo- ' graphy by the inhabitants of Alfoxden, as reported to him by! C. Mogg, of the Farm House, Alfoxden. (Eagleston 80-81.)2^ ' 83. Aug 14 j DW writes [to MH] from Alfoxden: Their visit with STC \ in early July. Description of Alfoxden. "It was a month j yesterday since we came to Alfoxden...Our principal induce- ; ment was Coleridge's society." (EY #72, 68. See 1797:64n.); 84. [Perhaps c Aug 14, certainly shortly before Aug 19] (-Aug 19) STC pays a brief visit to Bristol, especially to see Mrs. Barbauld. [She apparently tells him to abandon meta physics.] (See NL 152; 1797:105.) (He returns Aug 19.) |(ILN, 22 Apr 1893, 500; CL I #202,203,204; 1797:87.) j 85. Aug 15 ; G. Walsh, the spy, arrives at Stowey; he writes to the j Home Office that Alfoxden appears to him the nest of a gang j of disaffected Englishmen. (Eagleston, 32.) 25STC may later examine the Norwich situation more ; closely (see 1797:115n).. 2®0n the spy generally, see also BL X; Poole I, 235-43; i WSH. | 186. [1797, Aug 18] j ! STC attempts to return from Bristol to Stowey [on j iAug 18] ; he mises the coach and is ill so cannot walk, and ithus does not leave on this day. j STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol j |Borrowings 124.) I I ! |87. [1797, Aug 19] j The coach from Bristol is full; but STC is well, so he walks the forty miles from Bristol to Stowey. Arriving home, he finds Richard Reynell there on a visit. (For Rey- nell's description of STC, see JDC 74-75. He also describes; jin detail the STC's domestic life— peaceful and happy at j this time.) George Burnett is also visiting STC (ILN 22 Apr 11893, 500). ! From Stowey, STC writes Thelwall at Swansea: His trip j home from Bristol. "The Aristocrats seem determined to per-; jsecute, even Wordsworth." (CL I #202; 1797:82 and n, 85.) ; 88. [1797, Aug 20] STC is trying to procure a cottage for Thelwall in the ; vicinity of Stowey. [Probably on Aug 20] he writes John Chubb, of Bridgewater, asking what Chubb can do toward that ; end. (CL I #203.) j 89. [1797, Aug 21] STC writes Thelwall from Stowey: He has reconsidered I the possibility of Thelwall's moving into the Stowey vi- 1 cinity and has decided, on consultation with TP, that it is , not a good idea, for political reasons (see 1797:82,85). Advises Thelwall to move near Bath. (CL I #204.) 90.; Aug 25 | - STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library, so he is ; in Bristol on this day. (Bristol Borrowings 124.) I 191. [1797, probably toward the end of Aug] j STC writes Cottle [from Stowey]: He intends to "stick j close to my Tragedy (Osorio) ...; then go to Shaftsbury to ! see Bowles; then to Salisbury, then to Christchurch, to see ! Southey." (CL I #205; see 1797:96; GCL 23.) ! 92. [1797, c Aug 29] j STC writes TP from Stowey: STC "had quite forgotten the Bristol fair," and was planning to see TP tomorrow, with. . I ~ ' • ....... ■ .- - ---- (1797) 91’ i ■ ■ Osorio completed. He has "but a very few lines to do." Tobin dines at Bridgewater tomorrow; regrets it, but cannot get away. (CL I #206? GCL 23.)27 j i . s ;93. [1797, c Aug 30] j [STC possibly sees TP, shows him a nearly completed Osorio (see 1797:96), and/or they may possibly go into Bris-^ tol together to the fair.) (CL I #206; GCL 23.) j 94. [1797, Sept] j ! . | Charles Lloyd to Robert Lloyd: Charles is with RS at Bath; will be in London during the winter. Robert should j order the new Poems, which has "just come out," and avail able at Robinson's in London. (CLL 43. See 1797:41n for a discussion of the date of publication of this volume.) j : i 95. Sept 5 RS, from Bath, writes Charles Danvers in Bristol: j Charles Lloyd's tales about STC. (NL 144-145.) 96. [Probably c Sept 6 (-probably mid-Sept, by Sept 15)] i STC sets off from Nether Stowey to visit W. L. Bowles at Shaftsbury, taking Osorio with him. Also visits his bro-i ther at Salisbury, and RS at Christchurch, to whom he reads j Osorio, which is finished to the middle of the 5th act (see j 1797:106). (The length of his absence is unknown, but he returns probably c mid-Sept, by Sept 15. See 1797:99.) (CL I #205,206,208; EY #74; NL 152? GCL 23.) 97. [Probably before Sept 13, 1797] ; STC records a notebook entry about a dark dungeon with j the sun rising on the garden, that seems related to Osorio I and Remorse. (CN I #152; Osorio I, 219-20: PW II, 538; ! variatim Remorse I. ii. 218: PW I, 830; PW II, 990, Frag j 17; PW (JDC) 649 on the date of Osorio; GCL 23.) 27Has TP suggested that he and STC go to the fair to gether, and is STC fearful that doing so might prevent him from completing Osorio? Osorio is not completed at this j time. (See 1797:109.) "Tobin" is probably James Tobin (see! Litchfield, 52, CL I #206 n2, p.345), who has evidently beeh trying to plan a visit to Stowey. [He finally may go down ! with TW Sept 15.] (See 1797:100.) j ■ ........7 ‘.'.. ' (1797) 92 98. [Probably Sept 14— perhaps Sept 18ff] | . ■ [Probably on Sept 14] Charles Lloyd arrives at Alfox den. Lloyd intends to stay until Monday, Sept 18. (CL I ! #207 n3, p.345.) j This visit, or the visit of the W's to London later | this year, is possibly the occasion of Lloyd's telling DW j that STC is a villain; later (perhaps next Mar) he writes her on this subject. (EKC RES; EKC 95; Moorman I, 395. i See 1797:121.) i 99. [Probably mid-Sept, by Sept 15] STC returns to Nether Stowey from his visit to W. L. j Bowles, RS. [He has been gone since c Sept 6.] (See 1797:96.) Sept 15 he writes RS with suggestions for revising his Hannah. STC is ill with a sore throat. (CL I #207 n3,-j pp.345-46.) 100. [Probably Sept 15] ! TW, [John Wedgwood or James Tobin] arrive at Alfoxden. j They stay till [probably Sept 19 or 20.] (CL I #207 n3, pp.345-46; Litchfield, 51; 1797:92n, 104.)28 | 101. [Sept 17] [W and TW probably visit Nether Stowey. They attempt j to see TP, who is not home; probably see STC.] (Erdman 434-35.) | 102. [Perhaps Sept 18] Charles Lloyd departs from Alfoxden. [He had probably ; arrived Sept 14. (See 1797:98.)] _(CL. X #207 n3, pp.345- 46.) i 103. [1797, Sept 19 or 20] ' j j TW and [John Wedgwood or James Tobin] leave Alfoxden. j They have been visiting since [probably Sept 15.] (Litch field 51; see 1797:100.) I ^This may be the occasion of STC's first meeting with ! TW. TW had been staying with his brother at Cote House in j Bristol during the summer, where he met TP. He then met STCj through TP. (Litchfield 49.) On July 1, TW had not yet metl either W or STC (see 1797:63). It is probable that at this j time he goes to Alfoxden [and Stowey] to talk to them about j hiseducational.scheme outlined in his July 1 letter t o J \ ...... - ... ' .....' ............ (1797) 93 ; i 104. [1797, c Sept 20] j ; . . j Lamb writes STC: STC’s ill use of C. Lloyd, and his neglect of Lamb in correspondence; request for STC to send j Lamb’s great-coat (see 1797:69). (LL I #31.)29 i -105. [1797, Sept 22] RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn: Mrs. Barbauld’s advice to STC to abandon metaphysics;30 STC’s Osorio; W’s Bor derers . (NL 148; GCL 23; see 1797:84.) 106. Oct 6 RS writes John May: The near-completion of STC’s Osorio. STC’s ideas for employing the profits— an annuity for SC or the study of medicine in Germany. STC’s prospects of writing for the stage. (NL 152; GCL 23.) i 107. Oct 9 STC visits TP. Charlotte Poole and Ware are present. |(Poole I, 244).31 STC writes for TP another of the autobiographical let ters (see 1797:14,21,110; 1798:49). This one covers Oct 1775-Oct 1778. (CL I #208.) 108. [Probably between c Oct 11 and Oct 13] STC is absent a day or two from Nether Stowey; his whereabouts are unknown. [He probably returns Oct 13.] (CL I #209; see 1 7 9 7:1 0 9.)32 Godwin. (See Erdman 433-34.) ; 29Lucas says, LL I, 188n: "Between this and the next letter [Jan 28, 1798] probably came correspondence that has j now been lost." 30Anna Letitia Barbauld’s poem to STC ("To S. T. Cole ridge, 1797," Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld [London, 1825] I, 209-10) contains this advice: rNot in the maze of meta- ! physic lore, / Build thou thy place of resting!" Mrs. Sandford also observes that Penelope Poole once refused, at a similar gathering at TP’s home, to sing "Come,! ever smiling Liberty" to TP’s friends because "she knew what jthey meant with their liberty!" I * 320n the question of whether "Kubla Khan" was composed during.this absence, see 1797:116n; Griggs headnote, I r . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . . ' " . . . “ . . ( 1 7 9 7 ) 9 4 |l09. [Probably Oct 14] J STC writes John Thelwall from Stowey the letter in Which he says he has been absent "a day or two" (see 1797: 108). He is unable to help Thelwall (see 1797:89); may himself ultimately "become a Unitarian minister as a less j evil than starvation." His mind "feels as if it ached to j behold and know something great— something one and indivi sible..." Osorio is finished, "and to be sent off today." i (CL I #209.) i One copy of Osorio is sent off today. (GCL 23.)33 j i 110. [1797, c Oct 16] | I STC writes another of the autobiographical letters to j TP, covering the period from Oct 1779 to Oct 1781. (CL I i#210; see 1797:14,21,107; 1798:49.) j 111. Oct 16 j STC sends a copy of Osorio via Bowles to Sheridan, who rejects it (see 1797:124). With it he sends an accompanying letter, explaining some changes he has made. (CL I #211; i GCL 23.) j j ’ i 112. Oct 25 i STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library, so he is j in Bristol on this day. (Bristol Borrowings 124.) t 113. [Oct 28] | [The 1797 Poems may be published in London on this day.] (MP for Oct 28; Wise, 39. But see 1797:41n\ for an explanation of the confusion over the date of publication. GCL 31.)34 j CL I, 348-349. f . i 33Tw o copies of Osorio were sent off, the first on j Oct 14 to William Linley, the second on Oct 16 via Bowles to Sheridan (CL I #211; 1797:111). On Dec 2 STC learned ithat Sheridan had rejected the tragedy (CL I #218; 1797:124)J (CL I #209 n2, p.352.) 34EKC also says (69) that STC seems to have gone to j Bristol this month, to see through the last stages of the publication. I find no evidence of this in the letters or j ;CN, but if STC was "probably a visitor" at Cote House "be- j jfore the end of October," as Erdman suggests (435), then it j [Before or during Nov, by c Nov 20] j STC writes his Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnets. (GCL j Nov | i The Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnets appear in MM for month. (MM, Nov 1797; PW I, 209-211; GCL 32.)3 5 j I I [Early Nov] W, DW, STC make a short walking tour to Lynton, via j the coast. [They possibly sleep a night at Porlock.j They j sleep a night at Lynton. They visit the Valley of Stones. ! j(EY #76,77; see 1797:118n. ) ; ■ This expedition gives rise to a plan to make the Val- i pLey of Stones the scene for a prose tale by W and STC in the manner of Gessner's Death of Abel (see Hazlitt XVII, 120; Moorman I, 346-47); and probably within a few days "The j Wanderings of Cain" is begun, but the plan for cooperative j effort on it fails. (PW I, 285-92, esp. STC's preface; "We; Are Seven" IF note; 1797:118.) I [This expedition is possibly the occasion on which STC retires, perhaps to Ash Farm near Porlock, possibly as a re-! suit of an attack of dysentery, and writes "Kubla Khan."] j (GCL 33.)36 I is likely that he was also tending to the Poems in Bristol, i He was certainly in Bristol on Oct 25 (see 1797:112). 35Hanson suggests (470, n43) that STC may have gone to Norwich this month, possibly with George Burnett, to examine! the ministerial post available there after the death of the I Rev. William Enfield on Nov 3. There is no direct evidence j that he did so, but it does seem plausible. ! 3®The date of the writing of "Kubla Khan" is easily j the most controversial in the entire STC canon. I am not ! going to attempt a solution here: I have no new light to throw on an old problem, and I do not believe a fully con vincing conclusion is possible with the present available evidence. There is much to be said for all sides of the ar-j gument, and almost every critic seems convincing, depending i ;on whom one happens to be reading at any given time. What | follows is a summary of the varying opinions, with the side j I am inclined to take, for what it may be worth, at the end.! Griggs, in CL I #209 headnote, and Chambers, in EKC i 100-03, conclude that "Kubla Khan" was composed a few days ! before Oct 14 (see 1797:108), during STC's mysterious ab- j sence of "a day or two" from Stowey. (Mary Moorman I, 346, |114. i j |32.) |ll5. ] this 116. [ ---------------^- - ..................... -................... . .... . • -------117 97) 96 j jll7. [Probably between early Nov 1797 and 1798] : i i j j STC writes "The Wanderings of Cain." (PW I, 285-92; | ;GCL 34.) [It is probably begun as.a cooperative effort be-j tween W and STC;] STC, however, completes it alone. i • . - j 'states "late September or October 1797.") They argue that | jsince STC's phrasing in his Oct 14 letter is suggestive of I "Kubla Khan" and vaguely descriptive of scenes like those j !near Porlock, the composition of the poem must surely have ! taken place during that time. (See also Wylie Sypher, "Coleridge's Somerset: a Byway to Xanadu," Philological Quarterly XVIII (1939), 353-66; Alice Snyder, TLS, Aug 2, | 11934, 541.) This would be a rather convincing argument were it not for the fact, as Reed points out (MRWC 208-09, n33), that there seems to be no logical reason why STC would have left j Stowey for a couple of days in early Oct to go over twenty miles away to sequestrate himself in a secluded farm, parti- j cularly if he were sick, as he said. (See also Margoliouth,; 18.) This early Nov walking trip would seem to lend itself j much more readily to such a sequence of events, and it re mains close enough in time to the Oct 14 letter that STC could still have been thinking in those terms. Then there remains STC's own assertion that the re tirement to the farm came as a result of his depression over the quarrel with Charles Lloyd, which would have been late j May or early June of 1798. (See PW I, 295, n2; DA 393.) And there are, of course, possibly as many as three walking j trips to Lynton in late May-early June of 1798, during any j one of which the retirement to the farmhouse could have j occurred, though it seems strange that the event is not men-; tioned in any of the accounts of that time if it did, in- . . . deed, occur. (But see 1798:124.) Elizabeth Schneider, of course (ES 173), makes a j rather detailed case for the composition of "Kubla Khan" not occurring until 1799, based largely on the lack of reference! to it in the accounts of Carlyon (Early Years) and George Bellas Greenough (EJM) of STC's time in Germany. Again, a j possible point of view, but negative evidence cannot be to- ; tally convincing. Fruman takes a middle road (DA ch. 22, p.538 n8), and argues that the poem may have been written as late as 1799, possibly based on an experience that occurred in 1797. He thus casts doubt on the dream composition of the poem, and he does make STC's whole report sound just a bit fantastic: j why would "a man from Porlock" come seeking STC on "busi- I ness" (what business?) when he was out on a pleasure jaunt? j Indeed, how would the man even have known he was there if he was really sequestered? j And so the problem remains insoluble.Because Reed's ! ......' .. ..'.. ..... . ' ... (1797) 97 ! i I i J118. [Probably between Nov 12 and: Nov 20] i j ■ ■ • i | [Probably on Nov. 12, W., DW, STC depart on a walking j Stour at about 4:30 p.m. They return probably on Nov 20. j On Nov 12 ,W and STC lay plans for a poem, which became AM, | |to contribute to the expenses of the tour;, that evening, or j ipossibly a day later, they abandon their attempt to do the j Ipoem conjointly. The plan of a volume which eventually iended as LB is probably evolved also on Nov 12, or certainly !in the course of the tour. Their route perhaps takes them j through Watchet (they possibly spend the night there), and j ;it perhaps leads also through Dulverton.] (EY #77; "We Are | Seven" IF note, WPW I, 360-61; AM n . i n Sybiliine Leaves, 1817; AM n in The Poems of Coleridge, ed. Derwent and Sara j ;Coleridge, London, 1852; Mem' 11,442; Mem, R, II, 454; LB xiv; Moorman I, 346-49; HCR Diary III, 86; GCL 50; (PW (JDC)! 594.)37 ■119. [Probably between Nov 12 and 20, 1797 (-Mar 23, 1798)] STC writes AM. (PW I, 186-209; GCL 3 5.)38 ;120. [1797, c Nov 20] j STC, [evidently back at Stowey], writes Cottle: STC's "three Mock Sonnets" sent to MM for Nov (PW I, 209-11; GCL argument appears to have as much validity as any, if not j more than most (Fruman's argument is largely based on Eliza beth Schneider's, and has only as much credence as belongs j to hers) , I am following Reed and guessing that "Kubla Khan" may have been composed in early Nov of 1797. j 07 Reed says: "DW writes on 20 Nov, a Tuesday, that they 'set out last Monday.' EL.174 makes it probable that I there were two tours about this time. The simplest and most convincing way to reconcile the partly conflicting evidence; 'concerning the travelers' routes and the events of their j jtrip seems to me that of Mrs. Moorman (with whom I disagree j jonly on the date of ’Kubla Khanr) . On W's contributions to S AM, see the references cited." (MRWC 210 n37.) j ^®Fruman (DA 512, n20) says that "Dorothy Words- j worth's journal gives 13 Nov 1797 as the precise date 'The Ancient Mariner', was begun...." DWJ does nothing of the j kind. The entries in DWJ begin with 20 Jan 1798. Fruman I must therefore have gotten his information from EY #77, ! Iwhere DW, on Tuesday, Nov 20, indicates that the plan for j jthe poem was evolved on the first day of the tour which be- j |gan "last Monday," and would have been Nov 12. ! j ! ! ....""....... ......." ' (1797) 98 ] ! t j I |32). He has not yet heard about the reception of his tra- { gedy, but does not believe it will be accepted. He has se- j cured an introduction for W's tragedy with Harris, the ma- j nager of Covent Garden. (CL I #212; GCL 2 3.)39 ! 121. [Probably between Nov 20 and Dec 1 (-possibly Dec 15)] ! [Probably between Nov 20 and Dec 1,] W, DW travel to London in hope of revising The Borderers to suit it for the London stage. (EY #79; Moorman I, 350-51; TLS VIII, 1959, j 341») They remain in London until [possibly Dec 15.] (See i 1797:134.) ! During their visit, [DW and probably W dine at RS's three times and call there once or twice. Possibly Charles | Lloyd tells DW here that STC is a villain (later, perhaps next Mar, Lloyd writes her on the same subject; but see 1797:98).] ! I | 122. [Between c Nov 20 and certainly Dec 1 (-probably Dec 7 or 8)] i STC, SC go to Bristol [between c Nov 20 and certainly j Dec 1. They probably return to Stowey Dec 7 or 8. (See j 1797:130.)] While in Bristol, they stay at Cote House with j the Wedgwoods. STC meets James Mackintosh, who introduces j him to his brother-in-law, Daniel Stuart, MP editor.40 i Stuart contracts with STC for a guinea a week for contribur | tions to MP. (TT 14; WTM-I, 302.) -The first contribution appears Dec 7 MP. (Gentleman's Magazine IX, 485; CL I #216;! Litchfield 51; HCR Diary, III, 486; Mackintosh Memoirs I, | 326; Carlyon I, 68.} ; While in Bristol, STC also meets Basil Montagu, dis- j cusses with him a plan for taking pupils which seems O Q ; Hanson (214) evidently takes this last statement of j STC's to mean that he visited Harris personally and was j therefore in London, looking into the fate of Osorio. So i far as I know, there is no other information to support this .assumption, and it seems that the communication between STC I and Harris might have taken place by mail. If STC was in I London, he would have had to be there sometime between the walking tour that began Nov 12 (see 1797:118) and this let- j ter to Cottle of c Nov 20. A second trip to London indi- j cated by Hanson (220) in late Nov almost certainly never j occurred, as STC was in Bristol then (see 1797:122). ! 4°Do they go to London for this introduction? It is impossible to tell from Stuart's accounti Erdman says i(436, nl7) that STC's contract with Stuart was actually ar-*- ranged by letter "before the two ever met." He does not j give the source for this information, and I have not been I r— - ... - ...........- - - — — -----(1797) 99 'Unlikely'to prove practicable. (CL I #216.)4- * - He also sees Cottle, the Estlins, and Josiah Wade. (CL I #213.) | 123. Dec 1 ! i | STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol ;Borrowings 125.) ; ) • I ? 124. Dec 2 1 I I STC receives a letter from William Linley: Sheridan j ihas rejected Osorio (GCL 23). STC writes TP from Bristol: . j iHe and SC have "been several times at the Kings'...." ! (CL I #213.)42 125. Dec 3 RS writes Thomas Southey: The rejection of Osorio. (N& 155; see 1797:24; GCL 23.) 126. [1797, Dec 6 ff] j STC, SC go on [probably Dec 6] from Cote House to the I ^Kings' in Bristol, where they remain "a day or two" and re turn to Stowey. (See 1797:130.) 127. [Probably between Dec 7, 1797 and Feb 1798] STC records in his notebook lines on "reed-roof'd villages covered with snow, smoking in the sun-thaw," that appear to have a connection with "Frost at Midnight," | written Feb 1798. (CN I #329; "Frost at Midnight," 11. 69-70: PW I, 242; GCL 40.) 128. Dec 7 "To an Unfortunate Woman at the Theater" first i able to discover it. j I 41stc quite probably also discusses .with TW during ; this time the latter's plan for educational improvement. j (See Erdman 435; 1797:63.) Erdman suggests that the STC- j Montagu plan was along the lines suggested by Dr. Crompton I ifor the school in Derby (see 1796:123), with the students paying tuition. He further suggests that TW saw this plan ' as similar enough to his own that he was willing to finance j it, thus explaining the Wedgwood draft that STC received on | Dec 25 (see 1797:139.) ! 4 2 The Kings were TP's sister and brother-in-law in.J ! ............ ... ... .... ...... ... ....." (1797) lOO; ■ '■ 1 published. (MP Dec 7, 1797; PW I, 271-72. This is STC's first contribution to MP. See 1797:122; GCL 24.) ! i 129. [1797, Dec 7] i * ‘ 1 STC writes RS from Bristol: An apology for his re cent Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnets (see CL I #358n; 1797:115,120). He finds it incredible that RS could have j Itaken offense and applied them to himself. (GCL 32.) I i i ;130. [1797, probably Dec 7 or 8] i ; • j STC, SC return to Stowey from Bristol. (They have j been there since [between c Nov 20 and Dec 2.] See 1797:122.) (CL I #213.) i . ; 131. Dec 11 i ' ! [STC is possibly back in Bristol on this day] ; he j borrows a book from the Bristol Library. (Bristol Bor rowings 1 2 5.)43 132. Dec 13 W writes Joseph Cottle from London: Thanks Cottle for the volumes of Amos Cottle's [translation of Edda Saefflundar j H inn s' Frgfda] , passed on to him sometime since by STC. W, DW plan to leave London Friday and travel to Bristol, ar riving there Friday night. [Thomas].Harris, [manager of Covent Garden], has rejected The Borderers. (EY #79.) [STC borrows a book from the Bristol Library. He may: be there himself (but see 1797:131n). (Bristol Borrowings 125.) There is no indication whether he has been there con- ; tinuously since Dec 11, or whether he stays on through Bristol. 43This and subsequent books are signed for in STC's Iname by Catcott, the librarian, which: suggests that STC was i getting his books by mail, which is probable, since there I are books checked out to STC on Jan 24 and 29, 1798, when jSTC was in Shrewsbury; on Apr 20, when he wa!s in Stowey; on j May 25, when he was being visited by Hazlitt and Cottle; on: May 31, when he went on a walking trip to Lynton; and on June 8, when STC probably just completed a walking trip with lHazlitt and Chester. (Bristol Borrowings 125-26. See ! 11798:24,30,101,122,123,124,129.) j Dec 18 or 19-Dec 21 or 22; see 1797:135.)] I j | 133. Dec 14 ! I i "The Convict" appears in MP over the signature "Mor- j timer." [The poem was almost certainly sent in by STC under his contract with Daniel Stuart of MP.] (Woof SB,.160-64; j Moorman I, 351-52; R. A. Potts in The Athenaeum, Aug 13, ! 11904.) I ; ' j '134. [Possibly Dec 15 (-1798, probably Jan 3)] i ' ' ‘ [Possibly on Dec 15] W, DW depart from London for | Bristol. [They arrive in Bristol perhaps sometime the fol- j jlowing day.] (EY #81; Paterson; Joyce 290, 399-400. See j |1797:132.) They remain in Bristol until [probably Jan 3, j perhaps spending some time under the roof of Cottle1s father land mother.] (EY #81; LY #853. See 1798:2.) I |135. [Dec 18 or 19 (-Dec 21 or 22)] I [TW and Josiah perhaps stop at Cote House on their way from London to Penzance Dec 18 or 19 (see Erdman 435) , (stay until Dec 21 or 22). STC is probably there during this ! time, probably has a dramatic encounter with James Mackin tosh.] (See Samuel Parr, Works (1828) VIII, 576; Daniel j Stuart in Gentleman's Magazine, n. s. IX (May 1838), 485-86; 1799:139; 1801:173. See also Erdman 435-36.) j 136. [Probably Dec 21-31, 1797] i STC records the following notebook entries: I a. An experiment in meter and in describing sky ef fects that bears fruit in "Lewti," STC's revision of ! W's juvenile poem, "Beauty and Moonlight." (CN I #315 and n; PW I, 253-56; cf. WPW I, 263-64, 375; ! GCL 36.) | b. Another description of sky effects, that should be compared especially with the first published ver- ! sion of "Lewti." (CN I #316 and n; cf. esp. "Lewti," j MP Apr 13, 1798: PW I, 255n; also Osorio IV, 26: PW II, 564; also "Christabel." GCL 36,23,43.) j c. More sky descriptions which again appear to have | been influential in "Lewti." (CN I #317,318: PW I, j 253-56; GCL 36.) j d. A quotation on "Christ, the great Sun of righ teousness," from Robert South, D.D., Sermon IV, ......"The Certainty of our Saviour's Resurrection," in . J (1797) 102 S Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, (1737) V, I 165, 171. The quotation appears to be linked with a line from AM. (CN I #327 and n; Bald 2-3; GCL 35.) 137. [1797, shortly before Christmas, probably after Dec 2l or 22] ■ ■ t STC returns to Stowey [from Cote House), writes to j Basil Montagu: If Montagu can immediately procure eight J tuition-paying pupils, STC will join him in the school pro- i jject (see 1797:122 and n); if he cannot, STC will become a dissenting minister. (See CL I #2 1 6.)44 | 138. [After Dec 21-31, 1797 and before Apr 13, 1798] STC writes "Lewti." (PW I, 253-56; GCL 36.) [Possibly c the same time] he writes "Lines to WL." (PW I, 236; GCL 37.) 139. [1797, Dec 25] ) STC, in Stowey, receives from John Prior Estlin a j letter from John Rowe to Estlin: Rowe is resigning his post! as Unitarian minister at Shrewsbury to join Estlin in Bris- ' tol. (CL I #216.)45 i STC receives the Wedgwoods1 offer of £100 [probably ! on Dec 25]. (See 1797:143.) He spends a sleepless night ! wondering whether to accept it. (CL I #216. )4° 140. [1797, Dec 26] i [STC probably spends another sleepless night wondering; whether to accept the Wedgwoods' offer.] (CL I #216; see 1797:139.) : i 141. [Possibly Dec 26 or 27, probably Dec 28] j ! ■ i STC writes to Josiah and Tom Wedgwood accepting their ; 44Erdman suggests (440) that Montagu may be at Cote i House, and that STC through him is putting pressure on the i Wedgwoods to offer something toward the support of the edu- | cational project. 45Estlin is hoping that STC will consider taking Rowe's pastorate (see Erdman 439 n20 for an unpublished RS j letter to this effect) . 46see 1797:122n for an explanation of the probable j motive behind this offer. I i . j loffer of £100 (see 1797:139). (CL I #215,231. See 1798:3, |10,18.)47 |142. [1797, Dec 27] | ! j ! [STC probably spends another sleepless night wondering Iwhether to accept the Wedgwood offer.] (CL I #216; see 11797:139-41 and n.) j : ! 143. [1797, Dec 30] J : j STC writes John Prior Estlin from Stowey: His present uncertain situation. He has accepted the £100 draft from J the Wedgwoods, but he does not know if he should have. The j draft would enable him to live independently for two years j : (plus what he makes from his writing for MP) and carry out j the scheme of learning with Basil Montagu (see CL I #216 n2j p.361; 1797:122). Perhaps, instead, he should accept the | ioffer to take John Rowe's position at Shrewsbury (see 1797:139). STC is confused and wants advice from Estlin. j (CL I #216. See Hanson 227-30 for a discussion of the mo tives behind this letter.) 47The only possible dates Griggs gives CL I #215 are I Dec 26 or 27, and the letter, dated Dec 27, mentions having j received the Wedgwoods' offer "yesterday" (see 1797:139). j STC, however, later mentions having written the letter on "Thursday Morning," which would be Dec 28 (CL I #216). This seems to me probably correct, as he also recounts spending sleepless nights on Mon, Tues, and Wed preceding the writing of the letter (Dec 25, 26, 27). Perhaps STC, in his frustration, forgot, at the time of writing, that he! had received the Wedgwoods' offer three days before; or Iperhaps he was slightly prevaricating so the Wedgwoods would not think he had taken so long to respond. 1798 « I ;1. Jan 2 I ! . 1 ! "To the Lord Mayor's Nose" first published. (MP Jan 2, ' 1798? PW I, 8.) | 2. [Probably Jan 3] i W, DW travel to Alfoxden [from Bristol]. (EY #81; MRWC 213 nl.) j ; i 3. Jan 5 j STC writes the Wedgwoods declining their offer of £100 ; I (see 1797:139,143) . ;4. [Probably early Jan], before Jan 6 i STC writes "Parliamentary Oscillators." (PW I, 211-13; ■ GCL 38.) 5. Jan 6 i 1 t "Parliamentary Oscillators" first published. (Cambridge Intelligencer, Jan 6, 1798; PW I, 211-13; GCL 38.) j ; j 6. [1798, c Jan 6] STC writes to Mr. Wood and Mr. Rowe that he has decidedj to accept the offer of the congregation at Shrewsbury, and 1 that he will be at Shrewsbury "by the latter end of next week" (Jan 11 or 12). (CL I #218; 1797:141; 1798:11.) 7. [1798, probably Jan 6] j STC writes J. P. Estlin: He has decided to reject the j Wedgwoods' offer (see 1797:139), and to accept the congre gation at Shrewsbury (see 1797:141). He doesn't know if he| will be happy, but he feels he has to do it. Will sell his "Ballad" (AM) to Phillips for five pounds. (CL I #218; ■^Erdman suggests (441) that STC decided to reject the Wedgwood offer because it would have bound him to a syste jmatic plan. n ~ ' .'...... ........" ...... (1798) '105'' j GCL 35.)2 | STC writes Josiah Wade: His recent decision (see above). He will be in Bristol "by the middle of next week" j j(see 1798:11). (CL I #219.) j j 8. [Probably early Jan 1798, before Jan 8] j > i STC writes "Fire, Famine and Slaughter." (PW I, 237-40;• GCL 39.) I i 9. Jan 8 j [STC is in Bristol,] borrowing a book from the library.; (Bristol Borrowings 125.) ! 10. Jan 10 ! j j The Wedgwoods write STC, offering him an annuity of i £150. (CL I #222 headnote; Poole I, 257-59.)3 11. [Probably Jan 11 (-Feb 9)] i STC departs from Stowey for Shrewsbury and a short vi- ; sit to Bristol. [He returns Feb 9.] (CL I #220; see j 1798:41.) 12. [1798, Jan 12] j [STC, enroute to Shrewsbury and Bristol, probably spends this night at Worcester.] (CL I #220.) 13. [1798, Jan 13] STC leaves Worcester, arriving Shrewsbury 8:00 p.m. i He goes to Mr. Rowe's, where he is to preach. (CL I #220; Examiner Jan 12, 1817; Hazlitt XVII, 106-07.) ; 14. Jan 13ff I TP, at Stowey, receives on Jan 13 the Wedgwood letter ! for STC (see 1798:10), copies it for him, and sends the copy! to Estlin's. From there it is forwarded to STC at Mr. ! Rowe's at Shrewsbury. TP follows it with a personal letter j 2Phillips evidently did not buy AM. It did not appear i in MM, of which Richard Phillips was proprietor. (CL I j #218 n2, p.368.) j ; . | 3This time with no strings attached. (See 1797:139.) H ------------... .."..".... ; ....... ...... ‘ ---(1798) 106 • j jto STC recommending that he accept the annuity. (Poole 1/ | 1257-61.) J i ! 115. [1798, Jan 14] j I i | STC preaches at the Unitarian chapel at Shrewsbury both morning and afternoon; William Hazlitt walks the ten miles Ifrom Wem to hear him. STC writes Estlin about the ex- j •perience [evidently in the evening.] (CL I #220; Examiner, I |Jan 12, 1817; Hazlitt VII, 128; XVII, 107-08.) j I | 16. [1798, Jan 15] ; ! STC goes from Shrewsbury to Wem, to visit Hazlitt1 s ! ifather; [probably spends the night.] Leads in a most en- j Pertaining conversation around the table. (Examiner, Jan 12,1 1817; Hazlitt VII, 128; X V I I , 109-112.)4 j 17. [Jan 16] j Still at Wem, STC receives the copy of the Wedgwoods1 letter (see 1797:10) made for him by TP and sent to him at ^Shrewsbury. STC decides to accept the offer.5 (See Haz litt XVII, 112 for Hazlitt's discussion of STC's decision j to accept the annuity.) STC leaves Wem for Shrewsbury, ac-j companied by Hazlitt, who has been given an invitation to visit STC at Nether Stowey. (For an account of their con- ; yersation, see Hazlitt XVII, 113-15.) STC writes J. P. Estlin from Shrewsbury: The advan tages and disadvantages of the Wedgwood offer vs. the minis-; try; STC appears to favor the former. (CL I #221 and head- i note.) 18. Jan 17 j STC writes the Wedgwoods, finally accepting their offer of the £150 annuity (see 1798:10). (CL I #222.) j 4Hazlitt says that STC's visit occurred the Tuesday ^following his preaching engagement at Shrewsbury, which jwould make it Jan 16. But CL I #222 makes clear that STC j 'received the Wedgwood annuity offer on Jan 16, and if it happened the morning he left Wem for Shrewsbury, as Hazlitt ; indicates, he must have arrived at Wem the day before— Jan 15. 5 ; Erdman suggests (441) that this offer was more ac- j iceptable to STC than the one of Dec 25 (see 1797:139) I jbecause it left him free to develop his own genius. • ~ ' " (1798) 107 |19. [Probably Jan 17] I ‘ STC writes TP: His acceptance of the Wedgwood offer, j |He seems almost relieved to be rid of the possibility of j |the Shrewsbury ministry. He must stay in Shrewsbury two j Sundays longer (Jan 21 and 28), while Rowe goes to look for! a house in Bristol. (CL I #223; Poole I, 261.) j | j 20. Jan 19 ! j STC writes Isaac Wood, of the Shrewsbury congregation: j A rather extensive explanation of his declining of the offer of that congregation (see 1797:141). (CL I #224.) j i |21. [1798, shortly after Jan 20] j TP has received STC's letter of [probably Jan 17]. He! writes a brief reply on a letter from Daniel Stuart asking j for contributions, which he is forwarding to STC: TP is ex- ; ihuberantly happy over STC's decision to accept the annuity, j TP also forwards a note from TW requesting STC to meet I him in a few days at Cote House (see 1798:26; CL I #227). i (Poole I, 261; see 1798:19; CL I #223.) I i ‘ i 22. [1798, Jan 21] : j [STC probably preaches again for John Rowe.] (CL I i #223; see 1798:19.) 23. Jan [23] STC writes W: The Wedgwood annuity. (For W's reac tion, see EY #84.) Discusses Castle Spectre.^ STC must remain in Shrewsbury "over next Sunday" (Jan 28). He hopes : to be back at Stowey "by the middle of next week" (c Jan 31). (He does not indeed return until [probably Feb 9] I (see 1798:41). (CL I #225.) 24. [1798, c Jan 24] ; I 1 STC, from Shrewsbury, writes Cottle in Bristol, to | clear up a rumor that has apparently started that STC de clined the Wedgwood annuity offer. (CL I #226.) 25. [Probably between Jan 25 and Mar 5] j j i W forms his conception of The Recluse. (CL I #235; see! also EY #84,87; WPW V, 363-64.) i 6m . G. Lewis's play, produced at Drury Lane in 1797 (CL I, 387n) ............ . . _ „ ___ : " (1798)' 108 26. [1798, Jan 26] j I j STC writes TW from Shrewsbury: Answers his letter j (see 1798:21). Accepts his invitation to breakfast with ihim at Cote House the morning of Jan 30. STC will leave Ishrewsbury the 29th. (CL I #227; see Poole I, 261? I 1798:30.) 127. [1798, Jan 27] ■ ! STC writes TP from Shrewsbury: He leaves there the |29th (see 1798:30), breakfasts with TW at Cote House on the: 30th. He has "written nothing for MP", will write "imme- jdiately to the Editor." (CL I #228.) DW records in her journal a description of the moon [bursting from beneath its "invisible veil." (Cf. "Christa- jbel" Part I, 11.16-19. DWJ 4; EHCC 3; GCL 43.) : 2 8• Jan 2 8 Lamb writes to STC at Mr. Rowe's, Shrewsbury: Thanks ! for STC1s "many kind letters" that have gone unanswered; Lamb's late misfortunes; his relationship with C. Lloyd; ■STC's invitation for Mary Lamb to stay with him and SC. (LL I #32.)7 29. [1798, Jan 28] ; [STC probably preaches again for John Rowe,] who has gone to Bristol to look for a house (see 1798:19). (CL I #223,227.) 30. Jan 29 STC leaves Shrewsbury enroute to the Wedgwoods' at Cote House, Bristol (see CL I #222 headnote.) (CL I #227, 228,231.) 31. [1798, Jan, probably after Jan 27 and before Jan 30] ; i STC writes Daniel Stuart: The controversy that has been going on in MP over STC's "Monody on the Death of Chatterton" (PW I, 13-16) that appeared in that publication. iTell the critics that they should not waste their efforts |on this childish poem. (CL I #228.) 7 This : * - s Lamt>,s last letter before the quarrel with STC in May over Charles Lloyd. (See 1798:107,108,109.) STC arrives in Bristol from Shrewsbury. [He has been |at Shrewsbury since Jan 13. See 1798:13.] He goes to Cottle's shop. (There is no indication whether he has j ^breakfast with TW, as he had planned to do. See 1798:26.) j (CL I #230.) 33. [1798, probably between Jan 30 and Feb 2 (-probably Feb 8)] ! : | [Probably between Jan 30 and Feb 2, STC arrives at j Cote House, the Wedgwood residence. (He leaves probably j Feb 8. See 1798:40.)]8 ! During this stay at Cote House, final plans are made j concerning STC's receipt of the Wedgwood annuity (Mete- j yard 97). 34. Jan 31 i i [W, ] DW start from Alfoxden for Nether Stowey at [c . j 5:30] p.m. They are overtaken by a storm and shelter j under the hollies; leave the woods when all is clear. On i their return they meet a storm of rain and hail at the i Castle of Comfort.8 DW records in her journal a moon description that ap- | pears in "Christabel," Part I, 11. 16-19. (DWJ I, 5; EHCC 3; GCL 43.) 35. Feb 1798 i t STC writes "Frost at Midnight" and "France: An Ode." (PW I, 240-42, 243-47; GCL 40,41.) | 36. Feb 3 I j [W,] DW, [and perhaps someone else] walk over the j hills. [W and DW, or all three] return to dinner at 5:00. | (DWJ I, 6. See 1798:37,38.)10 ' On Jan 27 in a letter to TP, STC said that he intended to have breakfast with TW on the 30th. On the 30th he is at Cottle's in Bristol. On Feb 9 he writes his brother Georgej that he has just arrived home, having spent "a week" at Cote House. Exactly when STC arrived there depends on what he j meant by "a week." "The Castle of Comfort was a public house in the pa rish of Doddington (Poole B and B) ." (MRWC 216 n5.) ! .. 10Reed does a good job of summing up the problems. (1798)110 |37. Feb 4 . | [W, ] DW walk a great part of the way to Nether Stowey j [perhaps with someone] in the morning. (DWJ X, 7. See | |1798:36n.) Iconnected with this and the following two entries: "The entries of the Alfoxden Journal for this and the following j Itwo days all mention walking with STC. But STC had been j jaway since mid-Jan, and STCL I, 383-85, makes it quite plain ;that he did not return until 9 Feb. EKC 90, Moorman I, ;353n, and Margoliouth 19, which report STC back by 2 or 3 Feb, did not have STC's previously unpublished letter (see j I the STCL reference) of 9 Feb to work with. On the other j hand, no serious doubt can be cast on DW's datings at this j Itime: her dates jibe with days of the week, even with in- | jdications of matters like the phases of the moon (she speaks of the half-r-moon on 25 Jan; the moon was then at its first ! quarter) . The fact that our only knowledge of the journal | is through Knight's transcription proves unfortunate here. "The suggestion of EKC 101, accepted by Margoliouth ;30n, that the entry of 9 May, 'wrote to Coleridge,' was a mistaken reading for 'wrote to Cottle' (Cot read by Knight | as Col) is surely right; but conjecture as to whether ano- j ther such mistake occurred here is impossible. There exists not the slightest evidence of an early Feb visit by Cottle ! [see esp. 1798:69]. Visits and walks such as DW describes on the three successive days in question would have been j most uncharacteristic for Sara C (whom DW would probably have called Mrs. Coleridge, anyhow— see EKC 101; DWJ I, 12) J They did not normally see quite so much of Poole, and DW would not so carefully have noted that W was her companion I on two of the three days in walks simply to, or nearly to, Nether Stowey. 'Poole' or 'Tom Poole' or 'William' would j seem to bear little possible resemblance to 'Coleridge.' "The fact is that DW's phrasing is just the sort that j she used in speaking of STC when he is known to have been in the neighborhood. DW at times wrote up her journal late j I (see, for example, DWJ I, 12); perhaps she mistook notes of ' her own, or her memory played her false, although three sue-; cessive days seems too long a series of mistakes. The error |is probably Knight's, but the correct reading remains in doubt." (MRWC 217 n7.) Mary Moorman concludes that "unless Knight's transcript is in error, D.W. must have misdated the entries for 3,4, j and 5 February." (DWJM 4, n4.) j It seems to me that it is remotely possible that Cottle' idid pay-a visit to the W's sometime in the early part of I 1798, probably before Mar 13, or at least before Apr 12, j when he is asked to come again (see 1798:69; EY #87). j Cottle appears jtoJiave. confused-two - visits in his account ih j . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1798) 111" ,38. Feb 5 i [Someone perhaps calls.] [W,] DW walk [with him] to Nether Stowey, returning by Woodlands. (DWJ I, 7; 1798: 36n.) ! ( j 39. Feb 6 | [W,] DW walk to Nether Stowey over the hills, returning to tea. (DWJ I, 7.) | i ■ . i 40. [1798, Feb 8] | I i STC leaves Cote House the morning of Feb 8 ; has supper j , f in Nottingham with Mr. Williams at the White Lion; spends j the night there. (CL I #232.) j 41. [Feb 9] | In the early morning, while still at Nottingham, STC j ;has a strange feeling that he should return to Stowey im mediately. He does, and finds everything all right. (CL Ij #232.) [He has been absent since probably Jan 11.] (See ! 1798:11.) i After his return, he writes his brother George: The j Wedgwood annuity; the fate of Osorio. STC has "stayed a j week at Cote House, &...just returned home." (CL I #231; GCL 23.) I Rec I, 309— the visit of [after July 14, 1797] (see 1797: j 70 and n), which in turn he confused with his first meeting! of W (recorded Cottle:Rec I, 320), and this possible visit ; of sometime before Apr 12 in 1798. Solely on the basis of ; DW's letter of c Mar 13 and W’s letter of Apr 12, it seems j possible that there may have been another visit of Cottle to ;W shortly before Apr 12, 1798, and probably even before j Mar 13 (see CL I #239 nl, p.399; 1798:69). If the visit j occurred before STC left Stowey, as Cottle seems to indi- j Icate, it would have had to be before Jan 11 (see 1798:11). If STC was not present, Feb 3-5 seem as good dates as any j for the Cottle visit, especially since it seems plausible j that there is an error in the Knight transcription of DWJ for those dates, leaving open the possibility of a Cottle visit at that time. I .... ..“ : ........................... .....~— (1798).112 i i 42. Feb 11 | [STC probably calls at Alfoxden.] [W,] DW, STC walk jto near Nether Stowey. [STC probably continues home alone.] I (DWJ 1, 8; DWJM 6.) j j j 43. Feb 12 ; DW walks alone to Nether Stowey. She returns to Al- jfoxden with STC in the evening. [STC perhaps spends the Inight.] (DWJ I, 8; DWJM 6.) 44. Feb 13 [W, ] DW, STC walk through the wood. (DWJ I, 8; DWJM ! 6.) j "If Grief Dismiss Me Not to Them That Rest" is pub- ! lished in MP over the initials W. W, [The poem was pro- ibably sent in by STC.] (See Moorman I, 352; Landon RES 393; Woof SB 166-67.) j "Translation of a Celebrated Greek Song (From the Greek)" also published in MP over the signature "Publicosa." [It was probably revised and sent in by STC.] j 45. [1798, Feb 13] i STC writes J. P. Estlin: His strange impression while ! at Nottingham (see 1798:41). He "must...be in Bristol, in ! a few weeks...." He and Estlin should together edit But ler's Analogy with notes, as an answer to atheism, "T. Wedgwood did not speak a word to me about the circumstance, j only that I should hear from him." (CL I #232.)11 46. Feb 17 [If STC has returned home since his visit of Feb 12 (see 1798:43), he apparently calls at Alfoxden again on j iFeb 17.] A deep snow on the ground. W, STC walk to Bar- : tholomew's and thence to Nether Stowey. W returns to Al- ifoxden alone; he and DW walk through the woods into the jcombe to fetch eggs. DW later records in her journal a description of the winter scene (cf. "Christabel" Part I, 11. 31-34; PW I, 216; GCL 43). (DWJ I, 8-9; DWJM 7.) 47. Feb 18 STC writes to Cottle from Stowey: He has finished his j i ^Erdman asks (442) , "Was there question of the secu- j rity of the annuity in view of the circumstance that Tom was considered to be on the brink of the grave?" (See.1798:47n.j [.-.- ... - .............. ...........— -- (1798) 113 t I j"ballad" (AM>— "it is 340 lines."!2 Is also going to con tinue with "the Visions" ("The Destiny of Nations"— GCL 7), jin spite of TP's criticism. He has "received nothing yet ;from the Wedgwoods."!2 (CL I #233.) | I 48. Feb 19 I DW walks to Nether Stowey before dinner; W [apparently | jstarts with her but is unwell and] not able to go all the j way. She visits and returns alone. (DWJ I, 9.) i | i 49. [1798, c Feb 19] j [On or shortly before Feb. 19t] STC writes another in j the series of autobiographical letters to TP. This one j Covers the period from Oct 1781 to Oct 1782, after the death of STC's father. (CL I #234. See 1797:14,21,107, 110.) j i 50. Feb 21 ; i STC calls at Alfoxden in the morning. W walks through j the wood with him toward Nether Stowey, [where STC evidently returns alone.] (DWJ I, 9.) | 51. Feb 22 : I STC calls at Alfoxden in the morning; stays to dinner, j [Perhaps returns home alone.] W, DW walk after dinner to Woodlands. They meet a razor-grinder wearing a soldier's jacket and knapsack, with a boy to drag his wheel. (DWJ I, ; 9; DWJM 7.) < 52. Feb 23 [If STC did not spend the previous night at Alfoxden, he evidently calls again this morning.] W, STC walk in thej morning. DW stays in. (DWJ I, 9; DWJM 7.) [STC probably returns home alone before Feb 26 (see 1798:53).] ! 53. Feb 26 ! STC calls at Alfoxden in the morning, also Mr. and Mrs.1 12That poem was not completed till Mar 23 (see 1798: i 79). Griggs says, CL I #233 n2, p.387: "...that poem when 'finished' in 1798 had 658 lines." I !3The first payment evidently reached Stowey early in ! Mar, for the idea of study in Germany was determined between Mar 6 and 11 (see 1798:58,67). j | ............. ........' ' " ......... ■ '.. (1798) 1 1 4 ] ! ! 'Cruikshank. [W,J DW walk nearly to Nether Stowey with STC j jafter dinner. TP calls while they are absent. (DWJ I, 10. ) | 54. Feb 27 j | * j W, little Basil escort DW through the wood in the I ievening. She continues alone to Nether Stowey. STC re- iturns with DW as far as the wood. (DWJ I, 10-11.) j ;55. [1798, Feb 28 or Mar 2] j DW writes MH: Alfoxden is rented; she and W will be | moving, probably back to Racedown, though STC's society is ia strong inducement to remain in the Stowey area. (EY #83.) 56. [Mar 2] | STC calls at Alfoxden [either this morning or possibly j the day before.] [W,] DW walk with STC part way to [Nether Stowey] in the morning. DWJ I, 11? DWJM 9.) 57. Mar 6 Dw walks to see STC in the evening. W accompanies her j as far as the wood. STC very ill from a bad tooth. [Pro- bably DW returns to Alfoxden.] (DWJ I, 11; CL I #235; DWJM 9.) j 58. [1798, Mar 6] W writes to James Tobinl4 from Alfoxden: The Wedgwoods'j annuity to STC. Alfoxden let to Cruikshank? their own plans, which are not formulated. The possibility of a i walking tour through Wales. The desire to remain in the neighborhood of STC and TP. W has written 1300 lines of a poem conveying most of his knowledge on man, nature, and society; everything comes within the scope of his plan. (EY #84.)15 59. 1[1798, shortly before Mar 7 (-Mar 7)] | [From a few days before Mar 7] (see 1798:47) through i 14(1767-Oct 30, 1814); brother of John Tobin, the dra- ! matist; of Bristol and London. (See EY #84 nl, p. 210.) i 15"The date of 6 May given this letter Moorman I 609n ! must be a careless error....STC writes on 7 Mar that W has I done 1200 lines of a great poem (STCL I, 391)...probably | this to which W refers." (MRWC 223-24 nl2.) Reed sums up j concisely the current conjectures as to the contents of | these 12-1300 lines. j | ...‘....... '........ (1798) 115 j I ' • ' I Mar 7, STC is confined to bed with a bad tooth. On Mar 7 j he is still "weak." He writes Cottle: The omission of j Charles Lloyd's poems from the projected third edition of I STC's Poems (GCL 94). (CL I #235 and nl, p.390.) j 60. Mar 7 ! W, DW drink tea at STC's. DW sees a dancing leaf [her description of which probably formed the basis of "Christa- j bel" I, 11. 49-52, PW I, 217.] (CL I #235; DWJ I, 11-12; I DWJM 9; EHCC 4; GCL 43.) j 61. [1798, before Mar 8] j STC writes "The Old Man of the Alps." (PW I, 248-51; i GCL 42.) | 62. Mar 8 ! STC's "The Old Man of the Alps" (GCL 42) first pub- j lished, over the signature "Nicias Erythraeus." [It seems ; possible that this poem draws on a work of W's which has not survived.! (See Woof SB 167-69; Smyser PMLA 422; DA 454 n2; ! 1798:98.)16 j W, DW walk in the park in the morning. DW sits under \ the fir trees. STC comes after dinner; they do not walk again. (DWJ I, 12; DWJM 9.) 63. Mar 9 (-Mar 18) I STC writes to John Wicksteed of Shrewsbury: Explana tion and apology for an uncomplimentary remark he made about Arthur Aikin, a friend of Wicksteed's and a relative of Mrs.! Barbauld, when he was at Shrewsbury. STC, SC go [probably with Hartley] to Alfoxden for a visit. They are met by [W,] DW. (They depart Mar 18.) i (DWJ I, 12; 1798:76; DWJM 9.) j 64. Mar 10 : i "The Raven" first published. (MP Mar 10, 1798; PW I, j 169-71; GCL 14; DA 545 n2.) STC, SC, W, DW pass the morning in "sauntering about j the park and gardens" watching the children play; see "the ; old man at the top of the hill gathering furze." In the evening, STC, W, DW walk to the top of a hill. (DWJ I, 12; j 16W's composition, possibly later contributive to "The Old Man of the Alps," is in the Racedown Nb, surviving in i stubs only. It was possibly written sometime between c late 1788 and probably 2 July 1797 (MRWC 23,. GCL.34.).. j i - ..- ....— - - -......."- - - --- (1798).116 ; DWJM 10.) | 65. [c Mar 10] i STC writes to his brother George at Ottery ST. Mary's: j jQuotes from the "Addendum" from MS B of W's RC. The letter ! ;concerns mostly questions of government and religion. SC j jis expecting "within 5 or 6 weeks." STC's enjoyment of na- ! ;ture. (CL I #238.) ; 66. Mar 11 I The children (Basil Montagu and Hartley Coleridge) go down toward the sea. W, DW walk to the top of the hill above Holford. (DWJ 12.) 67. [1798,] Mar 11 W writes to James Losh from Alfoxden: The Wedgwood annuity for STC. The W's are to leave Alfoxden at mid summer. W, DW, STC, SC have decided to pass two years in ! Germany, acquiring the language and learning natural science, probably at a university near Hamburg; Losh and j [his former fiancee, but now, unknown to W, his wife,] Ce cilia Baldwin to join them. Suggests that Losh have John Tweddell send him information on Germany. W has been industrious during the past few weeks. Has j done 1300 lines of a poem, "The Recluse; or, Views of Na ture, Man and Society." (EY #85; Losh Diary.)17 i 68. Mar 12 j i [STC apparently walks to Nether Stowey.] TP returns with him to dinner at Alfoxden. (DWJ I, 12.) 69. [1798, probably c Mar 13] ; t STC writes to Joseph Cottle from Alfoxden: The quarrel' with Charles Lloyd. W and STC offer their tragedies for sale. (CL I #239; GCL 23.) 17"Mrs. Moorman at one point dates this letter 6 Mar | (I, 378) , but elsewhere (I, 363) has the correct date. This! is the first mention of the plan for a trip to Germany; the i project was probably evolved in definite form after W's let-1 ter to Tobin of 6 Mar in which he speaks of his uncertainty j as to future plans." (MRWC 225 nl4.) j James Losh: originally of Woodside, near Carlisle, ! later of Bath (see Lonsdale, Worthies of Cumberland IV, ! essay on James Losh). Cecilia Baldwin's father was rector ; at Aldingham on the c o a s t of Furness. I [.................................■ -----' ...(1798) 117 I I ^ ! DW writes a note in the letter: They will send "the j jgreat Coat and the waistcoat" next week. STC, SC have been j ivisiting "a few days." (CL I #239 hi, p.399. See 1798:36n;' 63.)18 | 70. Mar 13 TP dines again at Alfoxden (see 1798:68) ; W, DW stroll | in the wood until called in by STC. (DWJ I, 12; DWJM 10.) j 71. [Mar 14] [No record exists of this day, DW either having failed ! to make an entry for it, or Knight to copy the entry.] ("Probably Knight's deletion." DWJM 10 nl. But see 1798:72.) 72. Mar 15 DW, [having failed to note in her journal the events of this week as they occurred,] forgets how this day was spent. (DWJ I, 12.) 73. Mar 16 j STC, W, DW walk in the park a short time. DW writes a; letter (addressee unknown). W ill, but better in the evening; [W,] DW, [STC? SC?] "call round by P[u]tsham." (DWJ I, 12; DWJM 10.) 18"This message can be dated only on the basis of the " time of the Coleridges' visit; my date follows the sugges tion of Griggs. A remote possibility remains that the note ; was written a day or so later: [as the Coleridges have been visiting 'a few days,' it was probably written at least be-, fore the 16th, at which point they would have been there a week, and DW would probably have said so.] The 'great Coat; and the waistcoat' are unexplained; it would be pleasant to ■ think that they pointed to a visit by Cottle in early Feb j [see 1798:36n], but even if they did, there seems no reason I why the W's should have waited so long to forward clothing left behind." (MRWC 226 nl5.) I have considered above that possible visit of Cottle's in early Feb, at the reference cited, and I have no trouble believing that it might have occurred, on the basis of this ! entry. As for explaining why the W's waited nearly six weeks to return Cottle's clothes— STC procrastinated even more than that in a similar situation, when Lamb visited him in July of 1797 (see 1797:69). In September Lamb was still; writing to have his coat returned (see 1797:104). j ! (1798) 118 i ' ■ i 74. Mar 17 j DW forgets this day. (DWJ I, 12. See 1798:71, 72.) ' 75. [1798, c Mar 17J STC writes Cottle [from Alfoxden]: STC's quarrel with Lloyd and Lamb (see CL I #240 n4, p. 400). SC "is within a month of her time"' (although Berkeley was not born until May 14); therefore, STC will not go to Bristol.for Dr. Bed- does' lectures (see CL I #240 nl, p. 401). (CL I #240.) 76. Mar 18 [The STC's return to Nether Stowey; W,J DW walk half way with them. The W's shelter "under the hollies" during a hail shower on their return. (DWJ I, 12-13.) 77. Mar 20 STC goes to dinner at the W's. W, DW walk more than halfway home with him in the evening. (DWJ I, 13; DWJM 10.); 78. Mar 21 From Stowey, STC writes Josiah Wade: He will not go to Bristol for the Beddoes lectures, because of the condition of SC, who is expecting Berkeley soon. His bad tooth is better. (CL I #241.) W, DW drink tea at STC's. (DWJ I, 13; DWJM 11.) 79. Mar 23 STC dines with W, DW, bringing "his ballad" finished. (DWJ I, 13; DWJM 11; GCL 35.)19 80. [Perhaps c Mar 23 (-probably sometime shortly fol lowing)] STC begins "Christabel," Part I, [perhaps c Mar 23] of; this year. It is completed [probably sometime shortly fol lowing.^. (EHCC 4; GCL 43.) ■^Mary Moorman says, "Presumably 'The Ancient Mariner,' although Coleridge had told Joseph Cottle in February that it was finished.' The expression 'the horned moon' twice in quick succession in this and the entry for 21 March, ;seenis to indicate the influence of the poem. Cf. 11. 210-'! 11, 'The horned Moon, with one bright Star / Within the Inether tip.'" (DWJM 11, Mar 23 nl.) 20jjjuc speculates (EHCC 4) that "Christabel" was (1798)119 81. Mar 24 STC, the Chesters,2^ Ellen Cruikshank call on the W's. j ;[W,] DW walk with them through the wood. [They] go in the | evening to the combe to get eggs; return through the wood, walk in the park. "The spring continues to advance very ! slowly_____ " (DWJ I, 13; DWJM ll.)22 I 82. Mar 25 ! i [W,] DW walk to STC's after tea; return home at 1:00. | (DWJ I, 13.) 83. Mar 26 j [Tom] Wedgwood [is probably visiting at STC's.] [W,] DW come to meet him after dinner; return home at 12:30. (DWJ I, 13; DWJM 11.)23 84. Mar 29 STC dines at Alfoxden. (DWJ X, 14; DWJM 11.) 85. Mar 31 ! STC writes "To a Young Lady." (PW I, 252; GCL 44.) probably not begun before this date, as STC was giving his | time to the completion of AM. The DWJ entries c this time i that crept into the poem also make it probable that "Chris- i tabel" was begun c, though probably not before, this date (see DWJ 4,5,8-9,11-12,13; 1798:27,34,46,60,81.) Parti j only is completed about this time; Part II is not begun till the last two weeks of Aug 1800, after STC's return from Ger many (see 1800:166). ; j 2-*-"John Chester, of Nether Stowey, accompanied C. and I the Wordsworths to Germany in September." (DWJM 11, Mar 24 j n2-) | 22"Cf. .Christabel, 1. 22: 'And the Spring comes slowly up this way.'” (DWJM 11, Mar 24 n3.) See also EHCC 4 for a discussion of the connection between this journal entry and i "Christabel." (GCL 43.) 23TW is evidently helping them plan the German trip. The route they follow in Germany is the one TW followed when he was there. (See Litchfield 62.) (1798) 120 86. [Probably before Apr 1798] J i ; i STC records in his notebook lines on a nightingale used, in "The Nightingale," written in Apr. (CN I #231; PW I, 265; GCL 45.) • • j 87. [1798, Apr; spring and summer] I [STC writes "The Nightingale," celebrating his re- j lationship with W, DW, during Apr; possibly also "To— ," ; which is certainly written during this spring and summer.] (PW I, 264,292; GCL 45,46.) [STC probably also completes "The Wanderings of Cain," "The Three Graves," and "The Ballad of the Dark Ladie" by the end of summer.] (PW I, 285-92,267-84,293-95. See BL, 1817, II 3; GCL 34,29,47.) 88. Apr Charles Lloyd's novel Edmund Oliver, attacking STC, is : published this month. (CL I #243 nl, p.403; see CLL 56-57 for Mrs. Lloyd's opinion of the novel.) 89. [1798, early Apr] STC writes Cottle: He and W have given up the idea of ; publishing their tragedies (see 1798:69). W will sell the copyright to this volume of poems for 30 guineas. They need the money for their "plan:— to visit Germany." W's diffi- j culties in renting Alfoxden; STC's desire to keep him in the neighborhood. Cottle should visit as soon as possible. If he comes in May, they will walk to Lynton and Linmouth. (CL I #242. See 1798:121.) 90. Apr 2 (-Apr 3) STC goes to Alfoxden to escape the smoke [at his cot tage] ; he spends the night. They all walk in the wood and sit under the trees. (DWJ I, 14; DWJM 12.) . 91. Apr 3 | i STC, W, DW walk to [Crowcombe] (DWJ "Crookham") "to make the appeal." DW, STC leave W there; STC parts from DW | at the top of the hill. (DWJ I, 14.)24 [STC evidently con-j tinues on home alone.J 24»crowcombe, on the western side of the Quantocks. 'The appeal1 was an appeal against house-tax. See E.Y. p. 220." (DWJM 12, Apr 3 nl.) ! .......................... (1798) 121] 92. Apr 5 | W, DW walk in the woods in the morning; DW fetches eggs from the combe. STC comes to dinner [and perhaps spends the! night.] (DWJ I, 14; 1798:93.) 93. Apr 6 [If STC did not spend the previous night at Alfoxden, ! he calls this morning.] [W,]. DW walk part of the way home ; with him in the morning; walk up the lesser combe, intending to reach the source of the brook, but dark and cold prevent j them. (DWJ I, 14; DWJM 12. See 1798:92,94.)25 94. Apr 8 i W, DW walk in the morning in the wood; afterward, walk > halfway to Nether Stowey. (DWJ I, 14; DWJM 12.) [STC's "The Three Graves," 11. 468-500, 505-17, pos sibly refer to activities, feelings, and conversation of this day; but there is no evidence of STC's having been with the W's.j (See Moorman I, 389-90; GCL 29.)26 95. Apr 9 [W,] DW walk to Nether Stowey; they meet STC as they return. (DWJ I, 15; DWJM 12.) iThere is no indication of where he has been.] 96. [Probably between Apr 9 and 15 (-Apr 18)] STC departs for a short visit to Ottery St. Mary and 25"Coleridge was planning a long poem to be called The Brook. See his Biographia Literaria, ch. x." (DWJM 12, Apr 6 n3.) 26"If STC was speaking accurately in describing a 'Sun-! day,' there can be little question, in view of the weather (DWJ, EL 190-91), that this was the Sunday concerned; STC was probably away the next Sunday (STCL I, 398n; [1798:96],) \ But DWJ in no way indicates that STC was with the W's any time during this day. If STC was thinking of some other day of the week (Sunday would be the day of the week poetically ; most appropriate for the scene described), 5,6, & 9 Apr look like the best choices." (MRWC 231 nl9.) STC, of course, would not have had to leave for Ottery St. Mary's by Sun, Apr 15; it is just very likely that he did so, since he re- • turned on the 18th and would probably have spent at least that much time away. ' ..... ■ .... ........... -.. (1798) 122 his relatives. (He returns Apr 18.) (CL I #238 n2, p.398; i see 1798:95,100.) j 97. Apr 11 i j W's "Lines Imitated from Catullus (Lesbia)" appears in j MP, signed "Mortimer." [It was undoubtedly sent in by STC.]I (See Woof SB 169-70; Smyser PMLA 42.) 98. Apr 13 I I [W,] DW walk in the wood in the morning. They go to Nether Stowey in the evening. W goes to TP's; DW stays and | sups with [SC?]. (DWJ I, 15.)27 ; "Lewti," STC's revised version of "Beauty and Moon light," appears in MP over the signature "Nicias Erythraeus." (GCL 36. See Woof SB 170; Smyser PMLA 421; 1798:62.)28 99. Apr 16 "France: An Ode" first published. (MP Apr 16, 1798; PW I, 243-47; GCL 41.) 100. Apr 18 [W,] DW walk in the wood in the morning; they meet STC j returning from his brother's. [He had departed between I Apr 9 and 15 (see 1798:96).] He dines with them and drinks tea with them. They walk with him nearly to Stowey. (DWJ ; I, 15-16.) 101. Apr 20 At Nether Stowey, STC writes "Fears in Solitude." (PW I, 256-63; GCL 48.) W writes "Peter Bell." (DWJM 14, Apr 20 nl.) ! 102. Apr 23 I A book is signed out in STC's name at the Bristol ; 27Reed and Moorman agree that DW's ''Mr. Coleridge" in this entry is Knight's mis-reading for "Mrs. Coleridge," particularly since STC is probably in Ottery at this time, j (MRWC 232 n20; DWJM 13, Apr 13 n2.) 28"'Lewti' was to have been included in the LB of 1798, but at the last moment the sheets containing it were j cancelled and 'The Nightingale' substituted." (Note to re- j print of LB (1898), ed. T. Hutchinson. Quoted PW I, 253 nl.) * ......... ................(1798) 123 ; i . Library by Catcott, the librarian. [There is no other sug gestion that STC is in Bristol on this day, and he probably is not. He is probably at Nether Stowey.J (Bristol Bor rowings 125.) ! 103. Apr 24 j [W,] DW walk a considerable time in the woods, sit under the trees. In the evening they walk on top of the hill; find STC on theiir return; walk with him toward Nether Stowey. (DWJ I, 16; EY #87.) 104. Apr 25 STC [calls,J drinks tea at Alfoxden; [W, ] DW walk with; him to Nether Stowey. (DWJ I, 16; DWJM 14.) 105. Apr 26 [STC evidently returns to Alfoxden.) W goes to have ; ihis picture "taken" by W. ShuterJ ; DW walks with him. i They dine at home; W and STC drink tea. [STC possibly spends the night.) (DWJ I, 16; 1798:106; Blanshard 42; Cottle:Rec I, 317; 1798:110.) 106. Apr 27 STC breakfasts and drinks tea at Alfoxden. [W, DW, STC] stroll in the wood in the morning; [W, DW accompany STC to Nether Stowey] through the wood in the evening, then walk on the hills. (DWJ I, 16.) 107. [1798, probably early May, before CL I #243 (see 1798:108)] Lamb writes STC: A sarcastic list of questions for STC to answer, indicating the quarrel over Charles Lloyd. (LL I #33.)29 ^Cottle saia later, "Mr. Coleridge gave me this let- i ter, saying: 'These young visionaries will do each other no good."' (Cottle:Rec I, 301.) "For two years Lamb does ; not seem to have written again to Coleridge, and then the old relations were as nearly re-established as could be, considering that Lamb was rapidly growing older and inde pendent. When, in 1834, Coleridge died, Lamb wrote of him I ■that he was his 'fifty years old friend without a dissen sion,'; while just before his death Coleridge had written in pencil, against his poem 'This Lime-Tree Bower' my Pris- j Ion' the words: 'Charles and Mary Lamb— dear to my heart, jyea, as it were my heart.'" (E. V. Lucas n, LCL 125.) ! (1798)124 1 i i 108. [1798, probably early May, after LL I #33 (see 1798:107)) STC writes to Lamb: The quarrel caused by C. Lloyd j between STC, Lamb and Southey. Request for a meeting be tween STC and Lloyd, "either tStecl tete or in the presence I of all whose esteem I value." (This meeting never takes j place.) (CL I #243. See CL I, 403-06 ns on the quarrel; j 1798:109.) j 109. [1798, probably early May, after CL I #243 (see j 1798:108)] C. Lloyd writes RS: STC's "very odd" letter to Lamb; i STC is "bent on dissociating himself from us-r-particularly ; Lamb I think he has used unkindly." (CL I #243 nl, p.403.) ! j 110. May 6 [W,] DW "expect the painter" [no doubt W. Shuter] and j STC. Meet STC as they are walking out; go with him to Stowey; hear a nightingale, see a glow worm. (DWJ I, 16. See 1798:105; Blanshard 41-42,140-41.) i 111. May 7 W, DW walk in the wood in the morning. STC calls. j They walk to Nether Stowey in the evening with him. (DWJ I,! 16; DWJM 14.) 112. May 8 STC dines at Alfoxden; W, DW go to tea at Nether Sto wey in the afternoon. (DWJ I, 16; DWJM 14.) 113. May 9 W writes to [Joseph Cottle]3® from Alfoxden: Has not : read "the novel" [perhaps Lloyd's Edmund Oliver (see | 1798:88)]. They expect a visit from Cottle soon. W is de- ; termined to finish SP, and that Cottle will publish it; has j been very busy with another plan lately. (See DWJ I, 16; EKC 101.) 30 "Thereccannot be much doubt of the accuracy of the suggestion of EKC 101 that the DWJ entry 'Wrote to Cole ridge' was a misreading by Knight for 'wrote to Cottle' ! (Cot read as Col), and that this is the letter referred to. . The 'plan' is probably that which produced the bulk of W's j part of LB (see Reed UTQ)." (MRWC 236 n25.) j f ......... (1798) 125 ! ! 114. May 10 | | W's "The Hour Bell Sounds and I Must Go" appears in j MP with prefatory note and without title, signed "Mortimer."! i[It was undoubtedly sent in by. STC.] (See Landon RES 392n; | Woof SB 170-72; Moorman I, 352.) STC's "Morieris Superstiti" first published. (MP May 10, 1798; PW I, 61.) ! STC writes a bit of verse to W, asking for W's opiniori of his "The Nightingale." (PW I, .264; GCL 45.) ; ; ! 115. May 14 j Berkeley Coleridge is born. STC tells of the birth in letters to J. P. Estlin, TP, and to his brother George. With Estlin, he discusses the weakness in his practice of his Christianity. He consoles TP on the severe illness of TP's brother Richard. To George he says that Hartley has been ill. He is deeply affected by the news of the death of Mr. William Lewis. (CL I #245,246,247.) i 116. May 16 [-probably May 18; probably May 22 or perhaps a day or so after] W, DW, STC depart, [probably in the afternoon or evening,] for a visit to the Cheddar Rocks. They spend the j night at Bridgewater. W's object is to bring back Lloyd [from Bristol to Nether Stowey. (DW, STC return probably May 18; W returns probably May 22, or perhaps a day or so after.)] (DWJ I, 16; CL I #248. See Margoliouth N&Q; 1787:118,121.)31 3-1-DWJ • records the date of what appears to be the se cond day of this trip as "Thursday, 22." The only problem with this is that there exists no such date as Thursday, May 22, 1798. The only two plausible explanations seem to be those of Reed and Moorman: Reed: There was one trip to Cheddar, begun the 16th; and completed on the 18th, with DW and STC returning to Al- | foxden and Nether Stowey, and W going on alone to Bristol to| see Lloyd and Cottle. DW wrote "Thursday 17th" as the final! entry, which was mis-read by Knight. (MRWC 237 ns26,27.) Moorman: There were two separate trips to Cheddar, one begun the 16th, as recorded by DWJ, the other on Thurs- i day, May 24, at which time W went on to Bristol, STC and DW | returning together on the 26th. In this case, DW had the I date of the final entry wrong, and Knight failed to correct j it. (DWJM 14, May 22nd n3.) ; j It does not seem plausible to me that Knight could i have misread "17th" as "22nd," but neither is it likely thatj they took two trips to Cheddar following each other so J ;......... ... ................ ... (1798) 12 6 | : ■ i 117. [May 17] j [W,] DW, [STC complete their walk] to Cheddar; they j spend the night at Cross. [This day's entry is the last re-: corded as surviving in DW's Alfoxden Journal.]32 118. [Probably May 18;(-probably May 22, or perhaps a day or so after)] I STC writes to J. P. Estlin from Cross; He and the j W's have learned that Lloyd has probably gone to Birmingham,! but W will go to Bristol anyway, STC admires W, but they remain silent on the subject of religion. He wishes W were j more Christian. (CL I #248.) | W departs from [DW] and STC at Cross, carrying the i letter from STC to Estlin. [W remains in Bristol until pro-; bably May 22 or perhaps a day or so after; DW, STC return, i probably this same day, to Alfoxden and Nether Stowey. W returns May 22 or shortly after (see 1798:121).] (CL I #248.) 119. [Probably May 20, or perhaps a day or so after (-pro bably June 10)] William Hazlitt arrives at Nether Stowey (see 1798:17). Hazlitt and STC spend the night at Alfoxden, read MSS of j W's. During Hazlitt's stay, he goes on a walking tour to j Lynton with STC and Chester, [probably June 5 or 6-June 8 or 9.] (See Appendix for a discussion of the problems con nected with dating this tour. CL I #249; Hazlitt XVII, 116.) [Probably on May 20] STC writes TP: Consolation on the death of his brother Richard. (CL I #249.) closely. Reed's suggestion, however, seems to me the more likely. 32"Margoliouth N&Q 352 suggests the possibility that they spent the night at the home of the dissenting minister i John Howell. The correct interpretation of the date of DW's; entry for 'May 22nd, Thursday' (a day which did not exist) is without question that of Griggs: DW meant (and probably ; wrote) 17 May." (MRWC 237 n26.) 33Mark Reed says, on this visit of Hazlitt's: "Some j points resolve themselves more clearly than others. First of all, Hazlitt's distinct recollection of leaving the Ne- j ther Stowey-Alfoxden area with STC on a Sunday can be placed beside STC's letter of Saturday 16 June, which refers to his; arrival in Bristol the previous Monday, to make it certain I that both authors departed on Sunday 10 June ('My First . i (1798)127 120. [Probably May 21, or perhaps a day or so after (the ! day following that described in 1798:119)] j ; ' ! STC, Hazlitt walk in the park at Alfoxden. STC reads ] "Betty Foy," "The Thorn," "The Mad Mother," and "The Com- j plaint of a Poor Indian Woman." They return to Nether Sto- i wey for the night. (Hazlitt XVII, 116-17.) j ) j 121. [Probably May 22, or perhaps a day or so after (the day following that described in 1798:120) -probably May 30] I W returns from Bristol, [probably with Joseph Cottle, ; who, if not with W, arrives about this time. He departs probably May 30.] W [or they] stop first at Nether Stowey, j where W meets William Hazlitt; W is there at sunset; eats j cheese; [probably goes on to Alfoxden this evening. This evening probably offers the best choice for the occasion of ! the dinner of bread and lettuce described by Cottle.] During his stay, Cottle visits at Alfoxden. W, STC, and he visit Lynton, Linihouth, Valley of Stones (see 1798:89); make plans for the publication of LB on the terms stipulated "in a former letter," [probably 30 guineas.] They read MS poems. (Cottle:Rec I, 310-24; CL I #242,250. See W. C. Hazlitt, Four Generations of a Literary Family, London, 1897, I, 233; LY #942; 1797:70n.) 122. [Probably May 23, or perhaps a day or so after (the day following that described in 1798:121)] Hazlitt, STC, [and perhaps others] walk over to Acquaintance1 122; STCL I, 413). Hazlitt indicates that his visit lasted three weeks ('My First Acquaintance' 122). This statement was made from a distance of thirty years, but his memory in this noted essay usually rings true, and the j recollection can be taken as at least roughly accurate. j Three weeks qua twenty-one days before 10 June would be • 20 May. Hazlitt recalls that W's arrival on return from j Bristol, fresh from a viewing of Monk Lewis's The Castle Spectre, occurred two days after his own. Bristol was ' treated to Lewis's drama the theater week of 21 May, but not the week before or the week after. Thus Hazlitt can be sup-j posed to have arrived either on 20 May or very shortly after, and W to have arrived at Stowey two days later (and to have j met Hazlitt), probably 22 May or very shortly after. (See j iesp. G. W. Whiting, 'The Date of Hazlitt's First Visit to i Coleridge,' MLN XLXII (1927), 504-06; A. F. Potts, 'The Date! of Wordsworth's First Meeting with Hazlitt,' MLN XLIV (1929)> 296-99; P. P. Howe, The Life of William Hazlitt (London, j 1947), 37; Margoliouth N&Q; Moorman I, 373,397; H. C. Baker,! William Hazlitt (Cambridge, Mass., 1962), 126 . " (MRWC 318,J (1798) 128 Alfoxden; W reads "Peter Bell" in the open air. W, Hazlitt walk to Nether Stowey together, engaging in metaphysical ar gument; STC walks with DW, tries to explain the notes of thd nightingale to her. (Hazlitt XVII, 118-19; Advertisement to LB 1798.) ! 123. [Probably May 30 (ff)] j [Probably on May 30] Cottle departs for Bristol. (He j has been in the vicinity since [probably May 22, (See j 1798:121.) He probably takes with him MSS for LB, including AM (see GCL 35). It is unlikely that W added many poems to j LB 1798 from this point.] (See Appendix; Cottle:Rec I, 310-14; EY #91.) 124. [Probably May 31 (-probably June 1)] i [Probably on May 31] STC [perhaps alone or with un- j known companions, possibly with Chester, Hazlitt,] walks to \ Lynton. He returns to Nether Stowey [probably June 1. . If j this trip is made without Hazlitt and Chester, a trip with j them is probably begun c June 5 or 6 (see 1798:129).] (See i Appendix; CL I #250.) [Could this walking trip have been ' the time of the composition of "Kubla Khan"?] (See 1797:116| and n; GCL 33.). i 125. June Cottle writes C. Lloyd, suggesting that he visit STC and patch up the quarrel. Lloyd answers him: Cannot go to j Stowey, but is "easy in [his] thoughts" toward STC...loves j him... "can forget all that has happened." . (LCL 130.); 126. [June ]] [STC returns from his walking trip to Lynton begun May 31 (see 1798:124).] 127. [Probably June 4] j [W, STC are together during this day.] STC writes to j Cottle: Will see Cottle in "a week or two." Instructions ! concerning "Peter Bell" and "Salisbury Plain" for LB 1798. j W interjects a sentence concerning type size. [It is not j until after this time that the plan of the general nature and authorship of the contents of LB 1798 is finally settled in the minds of both publisher and authors.] (CL I #250.) \ : t Appendix VIII.) (1798) 129 i128. [Probably between June 4 and 12 (-probably between c Aug 10 and Aug 25)] ' | [Probably between June 4 and 12] W travels to Bristol j (see 1798:127,132). He departs finally [probably between c; Aug 10 and 25 (see 1798:150).] He [perhaps now] passes j some time under the roof of Cottle's father and mother. j (See LY #853; 1798:118.) 1 129. [Perhaps between c June 5 or 6 and c June 8 or 9 (3 days)] | [Perhaps c June 5 or 6] STC, Hazlitt, Chester begin a; walking trip to Lynton; they talk about LB and other sub jects on the second day; return to Nether Stowey the third : day. [c June 8 or 9]. (See Appendix; 1798:124.) 130. [Probably June 10 (-July 29, 1799)] STC, Hazlitt leave Stowey in the morning. Hazlitt goes .home to Wem; STC preaches for Dr. Toulmin at Taunton. They meet at Bridgewater in the evening. (STC is on his way to Bristol and Stoke Cobham, enroute to Germany, where he will spend nearly a year. He does not arrive back at Stowey till sometime shortly before July 29, 1799. See 1799:86.) (Hazlitt XVII, 122; P. P. Howe: Hazlitt Life, 43-44.) | 131. [1798, June 11] STC and Hazlitt walk together to Bristol, where they arrive this evening. STC recites some lines from Osorio. ! (Hazlitt XVII, 122; CL I #251; GCL 23.) 132. [1798, June 12] STC, in Bristol, spends the day with J. P. Estlin, who opposes the German expedition. (CL I #251.) W, Amos Cottle eat supper with James Losh [in Shire- , hampton.] (Losh Diary. See Moorman I, 400.) 133. June 13 STC arrives at Brentford, where he stays with Samuel Purkis, TP's friend (see CL I #251 n2, p.413; Poole 1,271.) ! DW writes Mrs. William Rawson: The plan to leave Al- i foxden at midsummer and go to Germany with the STC's. (EY #93.)34 34 SC does not, after all, go to Germany. (1798) 1301 134. June 14 [-perhaps shortly before Aug 3] I • ! STC leaves Brentwood for Stoke Cobham and the Wedg- j woods'. Mr. Purkis drives him "a great part of the way." At Stoke he stays with TW and his sisters. (He remains at Stoke until [sometime perhaps shortly before Aug 3], when he returns to Bristol. See 1799:147.) While at Stoke, he learns that Godwin is anxious to be reintroduced to him. (CL I #251.) 135. [1798, June 15] STC remains at Stoke with the Wedgwoods. (CL I #251.); 136. June 16 STC writes TP from Stoke: His trip thus far. He will "step into London on Monday...." (see 1798:138), probably to see Godwin (see 1798:134). (CL I #251.)35 137. [Probably between June 16 and 24] [W returns to Alfoxden.] (See 1798:139; Moorman I, 400; Mem I, 116; Mem, R, I, 118.) 138. June 18 [STC possibly goes into London from Stoke, possibly sees Godwin.] (CL I #251. The Godwin (MS diary) for this day is silent.) 139. [Probably June 25 (-probably July 2)] I [Probably on the morning of June 25, W,] DW depart from Alfoxden and travel to Nether Stowey, taking many be longings to store at STC's. [They depart from Nether Sto wey probably July 2 (see 1798:140).] (Mem I, 116; Mem, R, 118; EY #93,101. See Moorman I, 400n.)36 35JDC's opinion is that this meeting with Godwin does ■ not take place until 1800 (JDC 91-92; but see 1798:147n). 36"The Mem quotation describing the departure from Al foxden and the July tour in Wales has, from its exactness, the look of being from a contemporary letter of W's or DW's,I and not from anything written late in W's life (cf. Moorman j I, 401); it is probably a more accurate guide to the date of their departure than DW's statement of their plans on { June 14 (EL 193). The passage in question states that the departure took place on 'Monday morning, the 26th of June'; j (1798) 131 140. [Probably on July 2] : i W, DW depart from Nether Stowey on foot for Bristol. They depart from Bristol finally [probably between c Aug 10 j and 25.] (Mem I, 116; Mem, R, I, 118; EY #93. See 1798:150.) ' i 141. July 3 DW, in Bristol, writes her "Aunt" Rawson: Their de parture from Alfoxden (see 1798:139); visit at STC's during j his trip to Bristol; plan to go into lodgings at Shire- hampton (see 1798:143). RS described;.his talents inferior to STC's. Bristol is hateful after Alfoxden. General plans! about trip to Germany; mail problems in Germany. (EY #93.) ! 142. July 8 RS writes John May: STC's plan to reside in Germany with his family. (NL 170.) 143. [c July 14] TW, DW perhaps enter lodgings in Shirehampton.] (EY #93.)37 i 144. July 28 Lamb writes RS: Lamb's sarcastic list of questions to| STC (see 1798:107); STC's lack of an answer and projected trip to Germany. (LL I #34.) 145. [1798, before July 30] STC writes "Recantation." (PW I, 299-303; GCL 49.) if the departure was on Monday, as is likely, the date would have been the 25th." (MRWC 241 n30.) 37"d w's statement of their plans to take up lodgings in Shirehampton, made on 3 July, seems (although its tone is! rather definite) the only basis for assuming that they did. ; They probably did not do so before 10 July, and there is, likewise, no positive evidence to show that they made such a move afterwards. Losh's Diary indicates, however, that Losh, who was living in Bath at the time, wrote to W on 19 July and received a letter from him on the 20th, and other letters from him on 20 and 25 Aug. Moorman I, 408, states that Shirehampton was their headquarters for the next: five weeks." (MRWC 244 n35.) (1798) 132 146. July 30 : I "Recantation" first published. (MP July 30, 1798; ! PW I, 299-303; GCL 49.) j 147. [Perhaps shortly before Aug 3; probably Aug 3 or very j shortly after) j ' i [STC sees W, DW in Bristol or Shirehampton, perhaps shortly before Aug 3; probably on Aug 3 or very soon after, ; STC meets W, DW in Bristol or Shirehampton. That evening ; STC proposes that W, DW accompany him on a short tour in Wales.] (CL I #252; EY #101.)38 j 148. Aug 3 STC writes TP from Bristol: His departure on the Wales tour is imminent; has seen W, DW since his arrival in I Bristol. The Germany plan is materializing; STC will pro bably go without his wife and children, stay 3-4 months and \ learn the language, then see about bringing over the family j or returning. What does TP think of the plan? (CL I #252.); [This may be the night that STC suggests to W, DW that; they accompany him to Wales. (See 1798:147n,149.)] 149. [Probably Aug 4 or very shortly after (-c Aug 10 or i shortly after)] W, DW, STC depart from Bristol for a short tour in ‘ Wales at 6:00 a.m. [Aug 4 or very shortly after]. During this tour, they travel along the banks of the Usk and Wye. They proceed into Brecknockshire and visit John Thelwall at Liswyn Farm on the banks of the Wye near Brecon. (They return to Bristol [and possibly Shirehampton] c Aug 10 or shortly after.) (EY #101; LY 959; CL I #252. See CN #304; ! 1798:143,147.)39 i 38»STC does not mention to Poole, as one would expect ; if such plans had been formed before his writing, that W and; DW are to accompany him to Wales. On the other hand, he i speaks of his departure on his tour as imminent. He also says that he has seen W and DW since his arrival in Bristol.; (He had left Stowey 10 June and visited Bristol, Brentford, I and the Wedgwoods at Stoke d'Abernon (and probably London ! itself) in the meantime.) (STCL I, 413-14; EKC 98.) Pro bably STC saw the W's in Bristol before 3 Aug., as the let ter to Poole was written on that date. He evidently pro posed the journey to W and DW only the night before they set! out." (MRWC 244 n37.) j 39"Liswyn Farm contributes its name to 'Anecdote for 1 ................. “ . (1798)...133! ■ i ! i j150. [Possibly between c Aug 10 and Aug 25 -Aug 27.(and j Sept 14)] ! : i l [Probably between c Aug 10 and 25,3 W, DW, [and pos- j sibly STC or little Basil Montagu or both] depart from Bris tol for London. They travel to London on foot, wagon, j coach, post chaise, via Blenheim and Oxford. They are ad- j mitted ' to the presence chamber at Blenheim and see Oxford j University. They arrive in London on the evening of j [Aug 27.] (They depart Sept 14.) (Losh Diary; EY #96. See 1798:149,155; DWJ I, 397.)*° While in London, STC arranges with Johnson, in St, ; Paul's Churchyard, for the printing of the quarto edition of "Fears in Solitude," etc. But he does not call on Daniel Stuart regarding MP contributions. (JDC 92-93; GCL 48,41, 40; see 1798:152.) 151. [Between Aug 27 and Sept 14] [STC, W perhaps pay a visit to Josiah Wedgwood at Stoke Cobham.] (EY #100; Poole I, 278-79; Woof UTQ 44.) Fathers,' but the poem itself was probably composed in Apr. ; The travelers probably began their tour by going up along | one river, and ended it, after their visit with Thelwall, by going down along the other. STC remarked to Poole on 3 Aug that he was to be absent a week. If they walked most of all the distance except when on the water, and if they paid more than the briefest of visits to Thelwall, a week would be a very short time for their trip— the more so if anything of STC's original plan of returning 'per viam Swansea usque ad Bridgewater sive Cummage [Combwich]' was carried out. They may have spent somewhat more than a week. STC's movements from the end of the tour till mid-Sept are virtually un known; see below and EKC 99." (MRWC 245 n38.) 40"In view of the travelers' route and varied means of transport, their trip must have begun by the 25th. [James \ Losh's diary seems to indicate that he received letters j from W on Aug 20 and 25, which might perhaps mean that W and the others left, as early as the 20th.] W's speaking of the expenses 'per passenger' (£1/18/6) suggests that more people than W and DW made the trip. STC and little Basil are ob vious choices (although the elder Montagu was not in town when they arrived— EL 198). John Chester is possibly an other." (MRWC 245 n39.) • ; ........ '.(1798) 134 : i i 152. [Between early Sept and Sept 14] j [STC, in London, visits (and dines with) Mrs. Bar- bauld; meets with Joseph Johnson, the bookseller, at least three times. (They discuss the publication of the quarto edition of "Fears in Solitude," etc. See GCL 48,41,40.) During dinner at Mrs. Barbauld's, John Pinkerton, not knowing the authorship of LB, complains about the book to STC. STC perhaps pretends to agree to collaborate with i Pinkerton in writing a review damning the volume.] (CL I i #256; TCG II, 133-34. See 1798:153; GCL 50.) ! 153. [Probably c early Sept, by Sept 5, by Sept 14] [Probably c early Sept, by Sept 5, LB is printed by Cottle, and at least some copies have been given out. News of the volume and its contents is fairly well spread, at least in London literary circles, by Sept 14. Actual pub lication of LB has probably not yet taken place, unless on Sept 13 or 14 in Bristol.] (Daniel MLR, esp. 408-10; TCG II; 133-34; EY #97. See 1798:152,154; GCL 50.)4l j 154. [Between Sept 13 and 17] [If LB is published at all in Bristol (which is not likely), it is probably published at this time. Probably during this period, Cottle concludes an agreement making over his interest in LB to J. Arch of London.] (Daniel MLR, esp. 408-09. See 1798:160,176; GCL 50.) 155. Sept 14 (-15) [Before leaving London,] W writes to Joseph Johnson: Instructs Johnson to deliver six copies of LB to Richard Wordsworth. (EY #98; see GCL 50.) [W, DW, STC, John Chester] leave London for Yarmouth (where they arrive the next day). (CL I #253.) 411 1 STC remarks, in Grattan's story, that his conver- j sation with Pinkerton took place at Mrs. Barbauld's 'a few days after the LB were published,' but DW's statement on 13 Sept (EL 199) that the poems were 'printed, but not pub- j lished' and the implications of W's letter of the 15th (see EL 224) must be taken as more definitive than casual com ments by STC many years afterwards. There cannot, however, : be much possibility that STC fabricated all the basic ele ments of his anecdote about Pinkerton, and the story at least offers sufficient indication that LB was relatively well known in London before STC's departure for Germany— Mrs. Barbauld, for example, evidently had a copy. The LB ......................... (1798) 135 156. [Sept 15] [STC, W, DW, Chester] arrive at Yarmouth at noon. i (DWJ I, 19.) From Yarmouth, STC writes TP: He will write alter nately to TP and SC, twice every week, while away.42 ( cl I #253. See 1798:179 for TP's reply; Poole I, 277-81.) STC has "some long conversations with George Bur nett." (CL I #256.) I W writes to Joseph Cottle [from Yarmouth] (letter not j surviving): Requests Cottle to make over his interest in LB to Joseph Johnson in London. (Cottle:Rec II, 23; EY #113. See 1798:154; GCL 50.) 157. [Sept 16 (-18); 1799, probably late Apr, esp. after cj Apr 26, or very early May, esp. c May 1; mid-July, before July 29] ; [At 11:00 a.m. on Sept 16, STC, W, DW, Chester sail from Yarmouth. DW is confined to her cabin before the an chor is weighed; extremely sick, she does not leave it un- ' til the ship arrives at the mouth of the Elbe, Sept 18. W i likewise retreats before long (and is quite ill, probably also until Sept 18); Chester is also ill. STC is not ill. ! (DWJ I, .19; CL I #254; CN I #335; BL II, 132-41. On this day generally, see esp. CL I #256,.) 43 The W's return to England, probably late Apr, esp. after c Apr 26, or very early May, esp. c May 1, 1799. (See 1799:38. On the German trip generally, see esp. Moorman I, ! 409-36.)] STC returns to England [sometime in mid-July of 1799, | before July 29.] (See 1799:81.) 158. [Sept 17] [W, DW remain ill.] (On this day generally, see CL I : #256; CN I #335; BL II, 141-42.) 159. Sept 18 At 10:00 a.m. the ship reaches still water at the j mouth of the Elbe. DW leaves her cabin for the first time must have been that of 1798, since Pinkerton's faux pas re- j suited from the book's anonymity." (MRWC 247 n42.) 42He writes approximately one letter per month. 43Hstc says DW retired to her cabin at once after j sailing; DW's own, less dramatic description is probably the j more correct." (MRWC 249 n45.) ........ .... ................... (1798) 136 i ; ” ‘ i isince departing from England. The boat proceeds to Cux- | ihaven, arriving at 11:00 a.m. and thence up the Elbe, J dropping anchor 37 miles from Cuxhaven between 6:00 and . j 7:00 p.m. STC sees white clouds of foam beside the ship, j 'with the stars reflected in them (cf. "To William Wordsworth" 96-101: PW I, 408.) The ship moves on; they expect to be i in Hamburg in the morning. About 16 miles from Hamburg, STC sees banks reminiscent of Shurton Bars, near Nether Stowey (cf. "Lines Written at Shurton Bars": PW I, 96-100.) STC remarks in his notebook on "the silence of the populous-r banked Elbe at night" (cf. PW II, 999 Frag 13; also "Sa- j tyrane's Letters", BL II, 143-51.) [W, DW, STC, Chester] j drink tea, retire between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m. STC begins a letter to his wife. (DWJ I, 19; CL I #256; EY #99; CN I i #355; BL II, 143-43.) j 160. [Sept 19 and shortly after] The ship proceeds up^the Elbe at 10:00 a.m. after a delay from fog. STC, W, DW, Chester transfer to a boat at j Altona, and are rowed to the Baum-House at Hamburg. By this time, W has become closely acquainted with M. de Loutre. W | and de Loutre hunt lodgings while STC "dashes into town" to | deliver letters of recommendation. DW, Chester, and [per- j haps de Loutre's servant] guard the luggage. STC sees one ; of the Von Axens, Hamburg agents of the Wedgwoods (see CL I j #269). Calls on Remnant, an English bookseller, finds him out. Calls on Chatterley, a businessman in partnership with Viktor Klopstock (see CN I #337). After an hour, W, de Lou-j tre return to DW, Chester, and they proceed to the inn (where everyone but W is to stay), Der Wilde Mann; they find the inn dirty and expensive. They eat a makeshift din-| ner. W has procured a room at the Duke of York's Hotel, the lodging of his acquaintance John Baldwin. He probably moves to the inn the next day or very shortly after. STC joins the party at Der Wilde Mann; finds W and de Loutre drinking ! claret. Continues the letter to his wife begun the pre- I vious day: He is having Johnson print in quarto "Fears in j Solitude," "France, An Ode," and "Frost at Midnight" (see ' 1798:152; GCL 48,40,41). (DWJ I, 20-22; CL I #254,246,248; ! CL II 705; CN I #336; BL II, 144-46, 148-55. See 1798:179 j for TP's reply to STC's letter; Poole I, 277-81.)44 ! Some copies of LB are surely in the hands of people in Bristol area by this date. (Losh Diary. See Moorman I, 409; GCL 50.) 44"Moorman I, 409, says they reached Hamburg on the i 18th. STCL I, 431,433, and BL II, 148-55, make clear that ! there is no significance for present purposes in the can cellation in STCNB I, 336, in which STC has first stated : that W sought lodgings 'with the agreeable. French EM.,' but . ........... ' .(1798) 137 i 1 j 161. Sept 20 i ’ ‘ DW looks at the market. [STC, W, DW, Chester] break fast with de Loutre. DW walks with Chester for two hours, i STC takes W to see Klopstock's brother Viktor, who takes j them to see Professor Ebeling (Professor of Greek and His tory at the Akademisches Gymnasium); they discuss the j Greeks, the Turks, and other topics. [The travelers] dine j (and are cheated) at the Saxe hotel; go to the French thea- I ter in the evening; dislike it and come home early. STC records in-his notebook a list of expenses from i Yarmouth to Hamburg, and a list of various food items and their cost in Germany. (DWJ I, 22-23; CL I #259; CN I,#337,1 338; BL II, 155-58. See 1798:160. On V. Klopstock, see I EY #99.) 162. Sept 21 | [The travelers] dine at the ordinary at Der Wilde Mann. STC, W call with Viktor Klopstock on G. F. Klop stock at 4:00 p.m. G. F. Klopstock talks with W in French for over an hour, largely about poetry (esp. on versifi cation and English blank verse, the power of concentrating meaning in German (which STC calls "a great deal of non sense") , the English prose translation of Klopstock's Mes- siah.) W, STC walk to the ramparts. (DWJ I, 23; CL I #261 ; i CN I #339; BL II, 169-74; EY #99. See also CL III, 258.) DW writes to an unknown correspondent from Hamburg: The landing at Hamburg. (EY #99.) 163. Sept 22 STC, W, [and no doubt DW and Chester] ponder their eventual destination and the possible expense of a journey i marked out the first four words. They also make clear that I M. de Loutre, whose company the group shared in Hamburg (DWJ I, 21,22,24,26,28), is the French emigrant mentioned in STCL I, 416,424,432, as among their fellow passengers on the; voyage. De Loutre's plan of residing near Hamburg had evi- ! dently already been put into effect before the W's departure! for Goslar [see 1798:169,171]; previous to that he was pro- ! bably of the party at most meals when the others dined to gether and much of the rest of the time. I "John Baldwin was the brother of Cecilia Baldwin, wifd of James Losh (see Venn; Moorman I, 257,400). STCL I, 433, ; says that W found a bed at 'Sea Man's Hotel,1 which must be ! the same as 'The Duke of York's hotel, kept by Seaman' men- ; tioned STCL II, 705. James Losh notes in his diary under j 19 Sept: 'Coleridge and Wordsworth's poems aloud.'" (MRWC j 249-50 n46.) ............. J j . . . . . ..(1798) 188"] ito Weimar. Viktor Klopstock recommends Ratzeburg, offeringj ;a letter of introduction [to Amtmann Bruner], which they accept. [STC is selected to go there and investigate.] (CL I #262; CN I #340,342.) t 164. Sept 23 (-Sept 24, 27) I DW unwell in the morning. It is Sunday; STC sees a . j woman ironing and is surprised. [The party] dine at the ordinary at twelve o'clock. W departs for Hamburg at 3:30 (he returns next day) ; [W, DW, probably STC and Chester] look into a church on the way to the boat. STC leaves in the diligence at 5:00 for Ratzeburg (he arrives Sept 24; ' returns Sept 27). Chester accompanies DW towards Altona; ! they return by the ramparts. (DWJ I, 23-24; CL I #261,262; ! CN I #341; BL II, 165.) 165. [Sept 24] j i STC arrives in Ratzeburg, delivers his letter of in troduction to Amtmann Bruner. Discovers it is more expen- ! sive to live in Ratzeburg than he had supposed. (DWJ I, 24; CL I #262; CN I #342.) j 166. Sept 25 i STC dines at the Table-d1 hote, finds the food ac- I ceptable but not nearly so economical as at Der Wilde Mann ! in Hamburg. Spends a sleepless night; writes 200 lines of poetry [possibly the lost section of "The Ballad of the Dark Ladie"] (see PW I, 293 and n; PW (JDC) 614; GCL 47). (CN I #343 and n; CL I #257; BL II, 165.) 167. Sept 26 STC makes an agreement with a pastor for board and j lodging for himself and Chester in Ratzeburg. Celebrates j Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile. (CN I #344 and j 168. Sept 27 ] STC returns to Hamburg; arrives at Der Wilde Mann, I having walked from Empfield after refusing to tip the pos- j tilion because he wanted 24 shillings. Informs W, DW that Ratzeburg is beautiful but very expensive. (DWJ I, 26; EY #100; CN I #345-47; BL II, 168.) 169. Sept 28 I [Probably on this day,] W indicates a determination to seek lodgings toward the South. [On or by this day,] j ...... (1798) 139 ; : ! | i jthe landlord cheats the party of four guineas on their bill.; j[W, DW] settle accounts with de Loutre, who evidently de parts for other lodgings (see 1798:160n); seek STC at the j bookseller's; go to the promenade. The party dines at the ’ ordinary. After dinner, STC, W walk to Altona; observe the I prostitutes all in one street; walk on the ramparts; see a splendidisunset. (DWJ I, 26-27; CL I #269; CN I #346.) STC writes to TP: He has "given up all thought of going to Eisenach or Weimar, and shall settle with Chester for three months or possibly four at Ratzeburg." (CL I #269. See 1798:179 for TP's reply; Poole I,'277-81.)45 170. Sept 29 [W,] DW, [possibly STC, Chester] visit St. Christo pher's Church in the morning; W, DW take places in the Braunschweig coach for the following Wednesday [3 Oct]; W carries two trunks to the post in the rain. STC, W, DW, Chester walk on the promenade; dine at the ordinary at 12:30. The party is disappointed by the lack of celebration for St. Michael's Day. (DWJ I, 27-28; CL I #262; CN I #347;! BL II, 174.) 171. Sept 30 STC, Chester depart for Ratzeburg at 7:00 a.m.; [W, DW see them off.] STC has a "violent contest" with the pos tilion, who insists that he pay 20d a mile for each horse, instead of the established fare— a mark.. STC has to pay; DW, in her journal, does not know whether he will be able tb get redress. (DWJ I, 28-81; CL I #262,255 nl, p.419, 269.) ; STC, Chester arrive in Ratzeburg in the evening; enter their lodgings (see 1798:167). STC writes TP from Ratzeburg: That "most infamous dance," the waltz, which the Germans dance to "lascivious music." All the married couples commit adultery: "I am no ; Puritan; but yet it is not customs or manners that can ex tinguish in me the Sacredness of a married Woman, or quench ; the disgust I feel towards an Adultress— " (CL I #269.) 172. [Between Sept 30, 1798 and Feb 6, 1799] STC writes "Something Childish,.But Very Natural" (PW I, 313; GCL 51) . 45"STCL would imply that STC returned from Ratzeburg i to find W determined on seeking residence in the South, but j W probably did not reach this decision before he had heard from STC about Ratzeburg [see 1798:168]." (MRWC 252 n49.) I .... ■.:.... ' ~..‘.....;..(1798) 146 ; j 173. [Probably Oct 1798-Feb 12, 1799, probably toward the j end of that period] j I STC records in his notebook a list and comments on j various types of classical meters, probably inspired by Karl Wilhelm Ramler's verse translations of fifteen odes of Horace, and one by Catullus on the death of a sparrow. (Berlin, 1769.) (CN I #372,373 and h; PW I, 304-08,326-29, j esp. "Hexameters," • PW I, 304; PW (JDC) 137-44 and notes; GCL 52.) 174. [Probably early Oct 1798] * STC records in his notebook lists of German words and . their translations into English— words STC is trying to learn by the method of asking the name of something and writing it down. (CN I #353,354 and n.) 175. Oct 3 W writes TP from Hamburg; STC is at Ratzeburg. The belongings of the W's at STC's need a dry place, airing; W would like Alfoxden back. (EY #100.) W writes to Henry Gardiner from Hamburg; Is ignorant ; of who is publishing LB. (EY #101; GCL 50.) STC writes SC from Ratzeburg; He is glad to be gone from Hamburg, enjoying the lake and view from Ratzeburg., While in London, he visited Mrs. Barbauld; introduced him self to Johnson, the bookseller (see 1798;152). At Yarmouth he had "some long conversations with George Burnett" (see | 1798;156). (CL I #256. See 1798;179 for TP's reply; Poole I, 277-81.) ' 176. [Oct 4] ! The second issue of LB is published in London on this j day. (Morning Chronicle, Times, Morning Herald. See Daniel! MLR 407; GCL 5071 : 177. Oct 6 The W's arrive at Goslar. (CL I #260 nl, p.440; EY #102; DWJ 34.) ! 178. [1798, Oct 7] • . ' ! HD moves into Dr. Beddoes' house in Clifton, near ' Bristol, to serve as superintendent of the Pneumatic Insti tution. (John Davy I, 45.)46 46John Davysays(p.51) that HD saw much of STC,RS, i (1798) 141 179. Oct 8 TP writes STC: Received•STG's letters [of Sept 15, 1 18-19, 28, Oct 3]. STC's situation in Germany: he should j study diligently. STC's tendency to procrastinate. (Poolej I, 277-79. See also CL I #253,254,255,256; 1798:196 for I STC's reply.) i 180. [Possibly Oct 10, 1798, or at least by Oct 11 (-c Oct 20)] i STC leaves Ratzeburg for a trip to Ltibeck and the Baltic by boat [possibly Oct 10, or at least by Oct 11] . (Returns to Ratzeburg [probably by Oct 20].) (CN I #357-62; ! CL I #270; EY #107. See CL I #258.) 181. [Oct 10, probably 1798] | STC records in his notebook a description of Ratze burg in the sunset. This is the original of the passage in : BL II, 167, "Satyrane's Letters." [Possibly, but not likely, he goes . to Liibeck this evening.] (CN I #357 andn.) 182. Oct 11 [probably 1798] [STC probably goes to Liibeck on this day.] He ob serves a German card party at Liibeck. (CN I #358,361n; CL I #270.) 183. [Probably Oct 11, 1798] STC observes the white ruffs on the cuffs on the pas-j tors, [probably at Liibeck] . (CN I #359 and n; CL I #270.) STC describes [what is probably Ratzeburg, probably during or after the trip to Liibeck by boat] . (CN I #360 and n; CL I #270,359n.) 184. Oct 16 STC, probably in Liibeck, makes a list of various places to stay along the way to Kiel, and of what to see in i Kiel. (CN I #361 and n; CL I #270.) 185. [Probably Oct 16, 1798] | STC travels from Liibeck to Travemunde, sees beggars along the way. (CN I #362 and n; CL I #257.) and others of note while staying at Dr. Beddoes'. (1798) 142 : 186. [Probably Oct 20, 1798] j [STC returns to Ratzeburg from Ltibeck and the Baltic.]* (EY #107; CL I #258.) ! 187. Oct 20 I Evidently from Ratzeburg, STC writes SC: His stay at I Ratzeburg. (CL I #257.) 188. Oct 26 STC writes TP from Ratzeburg: His trip to the Baltic (see 1798:180). Events of Sept 19, 20 (see 1798:160,161). i (CL I #258.) 189. [Mid-Oct or Nov] DW writes [to MH?] from Goslar: The W's arrival at Goslar. (EY #102.) 190. [Probably early or mid-Nov (and at least two months thereafter)] i W, DW write to STC from Goslar in [probably early or mid-Nov], their first letter to him since their arrival there: Apologies for delay in writing; Goslar described; their intention of leaving in late Nov because of lack of society or opportunity to learn German. DW remarks that "William works hard, but not very much at the German." ; [Probably W, DW, and STC correspond frequently for at ! least two months hereafter.] (CL I #262; esp. CL I #270.) 191. Nov 1 SC writes STC: The children, esp. Berkeley, have been very ill from an inoculation against small-pox. (CL I #263 j and nl, p.449. STC does not receive this letter till Nov 30: See 1798:201.) 192. [Probably c Nov 1] A review of LB by RS appears in The Critical Review (XXIV, Oct 1798) over the signature "Aristarchus." (See Smith 30-32; Daniel MLR 407; EY #120; GCL 50.) 193. Nov 8 STC writes SC from Ratzeburg: The weather has de teriorated: "...we are at last visited by the chilly, misty Rains of November..." Events of Sept 20 (see 1798:161). He! has not heard from W. (CL I #259.)........ (1798)143 Lamb writes RS: Favorable comment bn STC's AM. (LL I #40.) I i ; 194. (1798, c Nov 15] j i W writes STC: No opportunity at Goslar to learn Ger- I man; projected plans to leave. (EY #103.) ! 195. [1798, c Nov 17] ! STC writes W from Ratzeburg: W may have trouble in Germany because he does not love smoke. (CL I #260.) ; j 196. Nov 20 STC writes TP: He is worried; has heard from no one at Stowey since Oct 8 (see 1798:179). Events of Sept 21-23 ; (see 1798:162-64). Has heard from W, who is at Goslar (see j 1798:190,193); arrived there "six weeks ago" (Oct 6). STC works at the German "from morning to night." (CL I #261; see Poole I, 277-79.) 197. Nov 22 TP writes STC from Stowey: Received his letters [of Oct 20, 26, Nov 8]. The health of STC's family; Hartley's ; progress in reading. Encouragement to STC to learn German. Stuart's request for a communication from STC respecting German literature. Encloses a list of agricultural ques tions, in the hand of Thomas Ward. Affectionate greetings. j (Poole I, 281-83. See CL I #257,258,259.) 198. [1798, Nov 23] Godwin, from London, writes John Arnot in Germany: W, STC landed "some time ago at Hamburg." Arnot should try to j contact them. They are reputed geniuses: "Coleridge I think fully justifies the reputation." (Godwin (Paul) I, 319.) j i i 199. Nov 26 | STC writes SC from Ratzeburg: He is depressed and j worried because he has not heard from her. The weather is j snowing and frosty; STC is learning to skate. Events of Sept 22-23 (see 1798:163,164). (CL I #262.) ; 200. Nov 28 ! Lamb writes RS: W and STC's parting to take indepen- j dent courses in Germany. (LL I #43.) | ............................................ .......(1798) 144 201. Nov 30 ! STC receives the letter from SC regarding the child ren's illness written Nov 1 (see 1798:191). (CL I #263.) , I :202. [1798, late Nov or early Dec] W writes STC from Goslar: The merits of Burger. (EY ; #104. See CL I #315.)47 203. [Probably late Nov or very early Dec] [W sends STC "There Was a Boy" apparently very much in its present form.] (See CL I #267.)^8 204. Dec 2 STC begins an answer to SC's Nov 1 letter on the children's illness (1798:191). He is relieved and thankful that they are still alive. Is ill with styes in his eyes and cannot continue writing today. (CL I #263.) (He com pletes the letter the following day. See 1798:205.) 205. Dec 3 STC completes the letter to SC begun the previous day (see 1798:204): His eyes are still painful; he can't read; i but they will be well in two or three days. (CL I #263. TP answers this letter: see 1799:8; Poole I, 284-87 for his reply.) 206. [Probably early Dec] • ' STC writes his "Hexameters" to W, DW. (PW I, 304-05; GCL 52.) 207. [Early Dec] STC writes two letters to W from Ratzeburg (see CL I #265 headnote): The value of English vs. German as a poetic 47Gottfried August Btirger (1747-94). His famous bal- ; lad Leonore was published in 1777. .48"w an(j STC were probably corresponding rapidly by this time (see STCL I, 459), but mails were wretchedly slow (EL 211). STC's letter of 10 Dec, on these lines, was pro bably written very shortly after their receipt— but W had probably not sent them off after the very first days of Dec." (MRWC 259 n60.) It seems possible that the lines may have been sent in EY #104 (see 1798:202). J ...............-........... (1798) 1451 language: English is at least sometimes better. (CL I I #265.) | German hexameters. STC finds them wanting. He is j lonely; misses W, DW. Transcribes some English hexameters ; he has recently written (PW I, 304-05; GCL 52) . (CL I #266.)49 208. Dec 10 j STC writes W from Ratzeburg, in answer to W's letter enclosing "There Was a Boy" (1798:203): "...had I met theses lines running wild in the deserts’ of Arabia, I should have instantly screamed out 'Wordsworth!'..." (CL I #267.) 209. [Possibly Dec 14, probably Dec 21 or 28] | W, DW write to STC from Goslar: Inquiries about early German poets, esp. a thirteenth century anthology mentioned! in Ramond's translation of Coxe's Travels. STC's hexameters (see CL I #266).. Inquiries about Wieland, Klopstock, Goethe's [Hermann und Dorothea]. W would be writing more were it not for the "uneasiness and heat" in his side. STC's skating at Ratzeburg (see CL I #262; 1798:199); STC could skate in the Lake District; intentions of visiting the North at end of summer 1799. STC's eyes. Request ad- ‘ vice on books to be purchased on their journey; STC is asked to preserve any MS of W's that he has (for fear of W's losing his while traveling). Copies of early versions of: "She Dwelt," "Strange Fits," "Nutting" (described as "the conclusion of a poem of which the beginning is not written");! Prel I. 11. 452-89, Prel2 I. 11. 425-63 (Skating); Prel I. i 11. 372-427, Prel2 I. 11. 357-400 (The Stolen Boat). (EY #105.)50 4®It is possible that either or both of these two "letters" were part of the Dec 10 letter. (See 1798:208, 209n.) 50"problems in dating this letter are complex, but at I least three points look clear: One is that at this general i time of the autumniahd winter, W did not write STC, nor . I STC write W, without having first received a letter from the1 other (STCL I, 459; EL 200). The next is that the letter was written— certainly completed— on a Friday (EL 211) . The third is that STC had an eye ailment in advanced condition on 2-3 Dec [CL I #263-266], but that he expected it to be gone in a few days— and that in fact nothing more is heard of it in what survives of letters which can be dated after j early Dec. STC would probably have mentioned the ailment to; Poole in his letter of 4 Jan 1799 or to his wife in his letter of 14 Jan[see STCL I #269-70; 1798:7] had it lasted (1798) 146 | I j RSVs opinion of LB; (NL 176-77; GCL 50.) SC goes to Bristol with the children. Hartley is i well; Berkeley has a cough. (Poole I, 284.) j 212. [1798, Dec] W, STC are evidently discussing plans to reside if possible in the same neighborhood. STC writes W expressing ; affinity. (CL I #268 and nl, p.453.) 213. [Probably 1798-Apr 23, 1799] STC records in his notebook notes on local customs in the vicinity of Ratzeburg and Gottingen. [Probably made be fore his letter to his wife of Apr 23, 1799, in which he enlarges on these customs.] (CN I #367 and n; CL I #276.) 214. [Probably 1798-1799] STC records the following entries in his notebook: on through the month. DW's thoughtfulness about STC's eyes ; (EL 211) would probably, then, not date from any time appre ciably after the beginning of Jan. A fragment of a letter : written by STC to W on 10 Dec survives (CL I #267; 1798: 208]; the letter was written in answer to a letter of W's which has not survived. There would almost certainly not have been time between 26 Nov, when STC was quite well [see j CL I #262, last line], and 10 Dec for a complete exchange of letters, including news from STC of an illness which had ! begun to trouble him only after 26 Nov (and probably not j until about 2 Dec [see 1798:204],) then a response from W, then a letter to W on 10 Dec, unless the mail had been in credibly rapid (see STCL I, 459; EL 211). Anyhow, it ap pears that W was writing STC around the end of Nov [see 1798:202,203]. It is thus most probable that the W's learned of STC's illness in STC's letter of 10 Dec; pro- j bably STC's hexameters, in view of the recentness of the illness described in them, were part of the same letter [see 1798:208,207]. It would have been miraculous had STC's let ter of 10 Dec reached Goslar by 14 Dec (EL 211); so that a j date of 21 Dec or 28 Dec, becomes probable. In view of the ! frequency of the correspondence (STCL I, 459) 21 Dec is per-* haps the more likely choice." (MRWC 259-60 n61.) 210. Dec 17 RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn: his Oct review in Critical Review. 211. Dec 31 (1798) 147 : i a. A list of conundrums and games, possibly connected with the GOttengen parties. (CN I #365.) I b. A laundry list which reveals something about STC's knowledge of German at this time. (CN I #368.) 1799 t 1. [Perhaps c early this year, by Mar 14-21 or.Apr 20 or 21;' probably between Apr 20 or 21 and Sept] : • ! W evolves a plan for an autobiographical poem addressed I I to STC; this plan resulted in The Prelude. [W had commenced the actual work on Prel, without this plan fully in mind, at Goslar.] (See MRWC Appendix XII; PREL xlvii; CL I #297.) 2. [Probably c Jan 1] j [Probably c Jan 1] a review of LB appears in The Analy- : tical Review (XXVIII, Dec 1798). (See Smith 33-34; GCL 50.)1 3. Jan 4 STC writes TP from Ratzeburg, in answer to a TP letter i dated Nov 22: STC is "well; calm, and industrious," and able to read German without mental translation. The dif ferences between Low and High German. Intends to send Josiah Wedgwood a series of letters on the history of the Bauers.2 Expects to remain in Ratzeburg "till the last week in January when I shall proceed to Gottingen" (see 1799:11),; "where living is cheaper." Anticipates perhaps returning "in the first week of May."3 Is worried about his expensesJ but expects that "by three months' residence at Gottingen I shall have on paper at least all the materials, if not the whole of the structure, of a work that will repay me": ■ * ■ " Contemporary newspapers indicate that many London monthlies appeared on or about the first day of the month following that for which the issue was dated. Where an ad-j vertisement for a given issue of a magazine has not been I discovered— as here and frequently below— the date of pub- | lication is surmised in accordance with this fact." (MRWC 71 n4.) ; 2This intention keeps appearing in STC's letters: see CL I #271,272,283,362. %e does not return home until mid-July. (See 1799:81, j 86.) (1799) 149 | j a "Life of Lessing."Wordsworth is divided in his mind, j unquietly divided, between the neighbourhood of Stowey and j the N. of England." STC "cannot leave the vicinity of j Stowey." (But see 1800:111.1 Wishes TP to secure Woodland ! for his return from Germany- (CL I #269. See 1799:8, ! Poole I, 284-87 for TP's reply.) i i 4. [Probably c Jan 12] | A review of LB [probably by Dr. Aikin] appears in MM. (MM VI, 1798, Supplement, 405. See Smith 32-33, GCL 50.) 5. [Probably Jan-Feb 1799] STC records in his notebook: A note on the severity of , the winter, probably in Germany during this time. (CN I #381 and n. See STC's n in White's Selborne, quoted by i Lowes, RX 154n; CL I #269.) 6. [Probably Jan-May 1799] STC records the following notebook entries: a. A passage in favor of clarity in poetry. (CN I #383 and n. See BL I, 26-27n; 215.) b. A note on "a skeltoniad," that materializes as "Two i Round Spaces on the Tombstone" attacking Sir James Mac kintosh. (PW I, 353-55; GCL 70; CN I #386 and n; CL I #356.) 7. Jan 14 STC writes SC from Ratzeburg: He is much worried about Berkeley (see 1798:191). Expects to be in GOttingen before : Feb 4,5 and "on May day, to be once more at Stowey" (see 1799:3n). "I hear as often from Wordsworth as letters can go backward and forward." W isn't getting very far with his! German (see 1798:194); the Germans probably believe DW is his mistress. He "seems to have lost his spirits...." STC j wishes to be horne.^ Gives a minute description of Ratzeburg.; ^This projected and never completed work continuously reappears throughout STC's letters. See CL I #274,275,283; WTM I, 293-94,302-05; CL I #305; CS II, 35-37; CL I #309; CS II, 39-42; CL I #314,351,356,362; CS II, 136-40. K | He indeed arrives Feb 12. See 1799:18. °The desire to be home and his great love for his wife ! are related, recurring themes through the letters. (See ;........ (1799).150 i i (CL I #270. See 1798:29, Poole I, 290-94 for TP's reply.) 8. Jan 24 i TP writes STC from Stowey: [TP has evidently received j STC's letters of Dec 2-3, Jan 4 (see 1798:204,205; 1799:3).]; Reassurance of TP's and SC's faithfulness in writing. SC ■ at Bristol with the children (see 1798:211). Encouragementj in STC's study of German. TP's approval of STC's moving toj GOttingen. Encouragement not to worry about his family (see 1799:7). The possible rental of a house at Stowey for STC. | "...permit no circumstance...to make you unhappy" (see 1799:15). (Poole I, 284-87. See 1798:204,205; 1799:3; :CL I #263,269.) ! 9. [1799, Feb] STC writes to Josiah Wedgwood a series of letters on the history of the Bauers (see CL I #271 headnote). The letters are probably never sent. (CL I #271. See CL I #269 and n.) 10. Feb 3 ! DW writes to Christopher Wordsworth from Goslar on Feb 3: STC's better situation in Germany than theirs; their probable return to England in the spring. (EY #106. See also EY #107.) 11. Feb 6 [-12] (-June 24, 1799) On Feb 6 STC departs with John Chester from Ratzeburg for Gottingen, at 6:00 p.m. He arrives in GOttingen [Feb 12]. (CL I #272; see 1799:18.) [During his time in Gottingen, he probably writes the "Translation of a Passage in Ottfried's Metrical Paraphrase! of the Gospel" (PW I, 306 and nl; GCL 52a).] [Between now and June 24, 1799, when STC leaves Gottin-i gen for home (see 1799:63), he perhaps also writes the fol-; ilowing, for which EHC says there is "no evidence as to the date of composition" (see GCL 53):] "Catullian Hendebasyllables." (PW I, 307.) "The Homeric Hexameter." (PW I, 307.) "The Ovidian Elegiac Metre." (PW I, 308.) "On a Cataract." (PW I, 308-09.) "Tells' Birth-Place." (PW I, 309-10.) CL I #272,276,277.) The irony is that he no sooner arrived; home than he was off again to the Lake District,, on a visit; thatintroduced him to Sarah Hutchinson (see 1799:133). j (1799) 151 "The Visit of the Gods." (PW I, 310-11.) j "From the German." (PW I, 311.) "Water Ballad." (PW I, 311-12.) ; "The British Stripling's War Song." (PW I, 317-18.), "Names [from Lessing]." (PW I, 318-19.)] 12. Feb 7 STC and Chester spend a very cold day and night, en- j route to Gdttingen. They arrive Lunenburg 3:00 p.m. [and probably spend the night]. (CL I #272.) 13. Feb 8 STC and Chester, enroute to GOttingen, spend this night at Celle. (CL I #272.) 14. Feb 9 (-Feb 11) STC and Chester leave Celle, arrive this day at Han over. (Stay till noon Feb 11. See 1799:17.) During his time in Hanover, STC visits the brother-in-law of Herr von DOring, a nobleman living in Ratzeburg. The brother-in- law introduces him to Baron Steinberg, Minister of State, and to Von Brandes, Secretary of State and Governor of GOttingen University. Steinberg gives letters of intro duction to Heyne, head librarian at GOttingen; Brandes gives letters to Heyne and Blumenbach.7 (CL I #272.) 15. Feb 10 STC and Chester are in Hanover. (CL I #272.) Berkeley Coleridge dies in Bristol. (EKC 110.) 16. [1799, Feb 11] SC writes TP from Bristol: The death of Berkeley; her j desire for a letter from STC. (Minnow #1.) 17. Feb 11 STC, Chester leave Hanover at noon. At 4:00 a.m. (Feb 12) they finally stop for the night at a village "some four miles from Einbeck," where they are given the same room with twelve Jews. STC remarks on the persecution of the Jews in Germany. (CL I #272.) 7Johann Frederich Blumenbach (1752-1840), a physiolo gist and founder of anthropology. (CL I #272 nl, p.472.) { .............. ■ . ;..... (1799) 152 il8. [1799, Feb 12] (-June 24) | STC, Chester arrive GOttingen [probably the evening of j Feb 12]. (CL I #272.) (They remain based at GCSttingen un- I til June 24. See 1799:63.) j 19. [1799, Feb 13] : j j In the morning STC, Chester look for rooms in Gbttin- I gen. They take four rooms, at 25 shillings a month; dinner j at the house opposite for 19 shillings a month. STC calls, | with his letters of introduction, on Professor Heyne. (CL I #272.) | 20. Feb 14 STC matriculates as a student at the University of Gottingen, paying 15 shillings for the use of the library.8 ! (CL I #272.) He writes SC, a letter that has not survived. (See Minnow #2, 1799:28.) 21. [1799, Feb 15] j In the afternoon STC is called on by two Englishmen, who inform him that Gttttingen is a very dull place. He goes with them to visit the University library, which impresses him very much. (CL I #272.) 22. Feb 16 | In the evening STC attends a concert which consists of ! a reading accompanied by music. Here he meets some other Englishmen, including Charles and Frederick Parry. After the concert he goes with Anthony Hamilton of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the Saturday Club. Here he sees "allj the nobility," and other Englishmen. Everyone except two of the Englishmen and STC are drunk. The party breaks up after 1:00 a.m. STC meditates on the fact that he can no longer i enjoy participation in such parties. He finds a couple of j German customs repulsive. (CL I #272.) ®For Coleridge's borrowings between Feb 21 and June 16,! 1799, see Alice D. Snyder, "Books Borrowed by Coleridge from the Library of the University of GOttingen, 1799," Modern Philology, Feb 1928, pp. 377-80. | ^Brothers of Sir William Parry, the Arctic explorer. j (CL I #272 nl, p.476.) ; "■........... . "■■■..... -.. 1799) 153.1 i ! |23. [Probably Feb 23-27] j W, DW depart from Goslar on foot; arrive at the post- i house, [Nordhausen,] in the afternoon of Feb 27. They find I : [two] letters from STC; find an inn. (EY #110.) 24. Feb 27 l Wf DW write to STC from Nordhausen: (DW:) The journey from Goslar to Nordhausen. (W:) Their plans, esp. to wan-; der about for two or three weeks, then to come to GiJttingen. ; STC's two letters, esp. one on German poets, Lessing, Wie- land, Goethe. Enduring values (or lack of them) in B[u]rger, Theocritus, Aristophanes, Congreve, Banbrugh, Farquhar, I Burns (esp. "Ode to Despondency"). STC's criticisms of poems W has sent him; W does not care for "How Sweet When Crimson•Colours" or "One Day the Darling of My Heart." (EY #110.) 25. [Feb 23-Apr 20 or 21; esp. c Mar 14-21] [The movements of W, DW during this period are unknown. They evidently wander about, esp. in Saxony and toward the South. W and, no doubt, DW keep a journal which has not survived. Probably they visit STC for an undetermined period c May 14-21, and W and STC (perhaps also DW) go for a ramble of about two days' duration; possibly one night ! during this ramble they are mistreated by a landlord and ob tain lodgings only with difficulty.] (EY #106,110.) (CL I; #368; Carlyon I, 16,186-97; WH II, 257-58. See EdS DW 106.)10 -*-®Reed does about as well with the difficult and some times conflicting facts of this period as can be done: "Carlyon's story of the Wordsworths' visit and the ramble, of which he was informed by 'one, well acquainted with the fact,' can neither be confirmed nor denied. W and DW had planned to be (though not for long) in Gdttingen 'a fort night or three weeks' after 27 Feb— a month, that is, before the only visit they are known definitely to have paid there.; Their travels must have been far different from what was originally projected if their only visit was that of late April. Something like a 'fortnight' or a little beyond would also have allowed them to visit and depart before Carlyon's arrival at Gottingen on 22 Mar, after which Carl yon would almost surely have had firsthand knowledge of the : visit. Margoliouth 48 (see also 58) states that W and DW ; met STC at Gottingen 'only...twice, for a matter of hours'; ; if they did meet twice— and I incline to believe that they ' did— the first visit was more than a matter of hours. Moor man I, 434, suggests that the visit of 20 or 21 Apr was the ! (1799) 154 i 26. Mar [10] | | | STC writes SC from Gbttingen: It has been a long time | since he has either written or heard from her, because no i mail is going out of Germany since the Elbe is stopped up j with ice. Events of Feb 6-16. (CL I #272.) 27. [1799, Mar] j ; STC writes SC: Definition of the term "Professor," as j used in the German university system. (CL I #273.) 28. [1799, Mar] SC writes to TP from Bristol: Hopeful that STC will be; home by the first of May; desirous of a letter from him dated later than the last, of Feb 14 (see 1798:20). Hart ley's illness and Mrs. Fricker's hurt foot. "I am almost only one paid; EdS (DW 106) likewise says that there was one visit, for 'a day or two'; L. A. Willoughby in 'Wordsworth ' and Germany,' German Studies Presented to Professor H. G. Fiedler (Oxford, 1936) 436, states that the late April visit; was for 'some few days.' It is interesting to note that the: MS of W's letter of 13 May to Josiah Wedgwood (Wedgwood | Museum, Barlaston), in which he informs Wedgwood that he and DW 'left Coleridge at Gottingen a month ago,' shows that W's; amanuensis, DW, originally wrote 'tw' instead of 'a' before j 'month.1 I "If W did not visit STC for a longer period, it is dif-! ficult to imagine when an incident occurred that Howitt re- ; ports as heard from W himself— that, arriving late at a ham-; let in Hesse Cassel, W and STC were set upon by a landlord I with a cudgel, and were able to gain lodgings for the night ' ■ only after much persuasion. Howitt says that STC describes j the same incident in BL, but he must have been thinking of j Carlyon I, 35-38, an incident in which Carlyon participated,; and at which W was definitely not present. Both incidents took place in Hesse Cassel, but it does not seem very likely that Howitt would have presumed to claim to have heard a story from W's mouth when he had not, especially since W was! alive when he wrote, or that Carlyon was essentially in accurate on the points that show his story had nothing to do with W. The best solution appears to be that while Howitt may have erred slightly in his recollection of W's anecdote,; some incident of the sort really took place (in Hesse Casselj or elsewhere); the only possible time for it seems to be the: presumed longer visit with STC. Howitt reports that DW was j with W and STC on this trip, and Carlyon reports that DW stayed behind when W and STC walked from Gottingen. If the j (1799)155 ashamed to write to you in strains of complaint but I ex pect you to pity and forgive me...The LB are laughed at and disliked by all with very few excepted." (Minnow #2.) j j 29. Mar 15 i I TP writes STC from Stowey: Receipt of STC's recent letter to his wife.11 TP has forwarded it to her at Bris- j tol. Berkeley's death from consumption: TP's consolation, j The good self-control of SC. The failure of the Wedgwood's] plan to buy an estate in the Stowey area. (Poole I, 290-94.: See 1799:35 for STC's reply.) | 30. Mar 24 ] SC writes STC [from Bristol]: The RS family have been ' very good to her since the death of Berkeley. LB has not received a good reception. The literary activities of Lamb, Lloyd, RS. (CL I #276 nl, p.489. See 1799:39, CL I #276 ] for STC's reply.) j 31. Mar 25 STC, in GOttingen with John Chester, is living in a "damn'd dirty hole in the Burg Strasse." (CN I #399.) 32. [1799, probably Apr or early May, before May 11] ! STC meets Clement Carlyon in Gottingen,12 dines with him at "Mr. H— 's, a Cantab of St. John's College." Shortly after this, STC, Carlyon observe together the antics of some university students. (Carlyon I, 16-22, 30-33.) ] 33. Apr 2 SC writes to TP from Bath: STC seems tired of Germany,] but she does not suppose he will return till the end of May.] She is weary of his long absence; shocked at his description of German parties. (Minnow #3. She completes the letter the following day. See 1799:34.) trip was the same, Carlyon is more likely right, but further speculation is futile." (MRWC 164-65 n4.) 11Unless STC's Mar 10 letter reached Stowey by Mar 15, ] which is highly debatable, STC must have written again around the first of Mar. Perhaps CL I #273 is this letter (1799:27). i o ! x A student from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in Ger- i many with a travelling fellowship (JDC 98) . ......._ i (1799) 156 i ! J. . i ( 34. [Apr 3] | SC continues her letter to TP begun the previous day | (see 1799:33): She has been visiting at William Courts' in | Bath for the past week; goes to Westbury next week. "The j LB are not liked at all by any." Has been invited to Otteryi by Mrs. George Coleridge. Has STC changed his political j sentiments? (Minnow #3, GCL 50.) I I 35. Apr 6 | STC writes TP from Gottingen, in answer to TP's Mar 15 j letter (see 1799:29): STC's reaction to the death of Ber keley. (CL I #274. See 1799:42 for STC's next letter to TP. The letter is completed Apr 8. See 1799:36.) 36. [Before Apr 8; Apr 8] I STC writes a poem for a friend whose baby daughter has died before her christening (PW I, 312; CN I #265 (20) and j n; GCL 54). He sends the poem to SC on Apr 8 in a letter of conso- | lation for the death of their son. He hopes to be home "at j the end of 10 or 11 weeks" (see 1799:86). (CL I #275.) On Apr 8 he also completes his Apr 6 letter to TP (1799:35): His disappointment about the house TP has sug gested for him in Stowey. He has no desire to live in a town. Is hopeful that the Wedgwoods may yet realize their | plan to buy an estate near Stowey (see 1799:29). (CL I #274.) 37. [Probably Apr 20 or 21 (ff)] j [Probably on Apr 20 or 21,] W, DW pass through Gottin gen. STC spends the day with them, walks on with them five j miles. The W's are melancholy; they discuss the possibi lities of living near STC on their return to England; W's j desire to live near the lakes and near a large library. STC's unwillingness to move from Nether Stowey. (CL I #276,| 277; letter of W to Josiah Wedgwood, May 13, 1799, Wedgwood I Museum, Barlaston. See EY #113.) ! i 38. [Probably Apr 20 or 21; probably late Apr, esp. after c Apr 26, or fairly early May, esp. c May 1] W, DW leave Gottingen [probably Apr 20 or 21]; arrive England at Yarmouth [probably late Apr, esp. after c Apr 26, | or fairly early May, esp. c May 1]. (EY #118. See 1799:37.) 39. Apr 23 STC writes SC: Received her [Mar 24] letter (see ; ■ ' ' ...'.: ... (1799).157“ | ‘ !1799:30): W, DW "passed through, and only passed through," ithis place, "two or three days ago." STC cannot leave in J less than six weeks and accomplish what he came to Germany ,to do. He describes a German Christmas custom, and some j other customs, [no doubt with the hope of writing something ; interesting to his wife]. Is grateful to the Southeys for | their kindness to SC. Encloses some stanzas written at Ratzeburg "one wintry night in bed" (PW I, 313 and nl; GCL 51).13 40. [May 4-9] George Bellas Greenough^ writes Mrs. Greenough (his aunt) from Gottingen: The projected tour through the Harz Mountains during Whitsuntide week. (EJM 221; see 1799:45.) : 41. May 5 STC, homesick, writes an adaptation of a poem by Samuel Gottlieb Burde, "Home-Sick." (PW I, 314 nl; GCL 55; CN I #407 and n; Carlyon I, 66; CL I #277.)15 42. May 6 STC writes TP from Gbttingen: When the W's passed through Gottingen (see 1799:37), he discussed with them W's i contemplated move to the north. STC cannot move from Stowey (but see 1800:111). He is very happy with the uni versity at Gbttingen. Expects to be at Stowey "the last week of June" (but see 1799:86) . He has a bad cold. En closes the lines on homesickness written the previous night (see 1799:41). 43. [Probably May 6] On the envelope of his May 6 letter to TP (see 1799: 42), STC writes a note to SC: The following Saturday he will go to the Harz Mountains (see 1799:45). 44. [1799, between May 6 and 11] STC writes to Charles Parry from Gottingen, to borrow his map of the Harz Mountain district. (CL I #279.) ^3The lines are an imitation of the German folk song, "Wenn ich ein Voglein war." 14Greenough (1778-1855), geographer and geologist. I^stc neglects to mention his debt to Burde. i........ (1799) 158: ! .1 145. May 11 [-May 18] | STC, in company with Carlyon, Chester, Blumenbach, ! Charles and Frederick Parry, and Greenough, leaves G6ttingen >10:00 a.m. May 11 for a trip to the Harz Mountains. (They j return [probably May 18] to Gottingen.) (CN I #409-421; j IMS Journal; JG 132,136-7; MM Oct 1835, 213 ff; "The Amulet" ! 1829; CL I #278,280,282; Friend I, 51; "The Nightingale" I,! 11. 14-15; PW I, 264; Carlyon I , 32-186; EJM.) The first j day out, they dine at Hessen Dreish, near Gottingen, where j STC transcribes a poem he sees at the bottom of a little print there. They pass through Wage, Womarshausen, and Poele; STC discourses on pain and pleasure on the way. They stay the night at [Scharzfeld]. (CN I #409,410; CL I #280; I Carlyon I , 33-34.) 46. May 12 STC and party leave [Scharzfeld] at 7:30 a.m. They ; see the ruined castle Burgruine Scharzfels and the cavern Einhornhohle; descend the hill to the village of Neuhof; spend the night in St. Andreas Burg, arriving 4:30 p.m. ; STC is not feeling well, so sleeps in a bed; the others sleep on straw. (CN I #411 and n; MS Journal, May 12; CL I ; #280.) 47. May 13 STC and party leave Andreas Burg 8:00 a.m., pass through the Rauschenbach valley, past the "tremendous Rock" Rehburg, and on to the lake Oder Teich. They climb the Brocken mountain to [Elbingerode]. STC writes "I Stood on Brocken's Sovran Height, and Saw" in an album brought to them in the inn at Elbingerode (PW I, 315-16; also, possibly "Homesick" (PW I, 314 and n); GCL 56,55.) STC remains ill. j [They probably spend the night at Elbingerode (cf. Carlyon I [ 64, who says they reach Wernigerode this evening).] (CN I | #412 (cf. JG 132); CL I #280; Carlyon I, 42-66.)16 ' W writes to Richard Wordsworth from Sockburn: Their safe arrival in England. Fears mismanagement in the case of; LB; has not heard from Cottle. (EY #111; GCL 50.) 48. May 14 STC awakens at Elbingerode well, after his illness of j the day before (see 1799:47). The party leaves Elbingerode ; on this day (CL I #281) . They pass the Baumannshdhle" and ! 16 i Carlyon I, 42 says that the climb up the Brocken took place on May 12. But STC' s notes recorded at the time must ; be correct. .... - ........ -.... - ....- .... j (1799)159 ;the Bielshdhle caverns near Rubelland; pass through the town of Riibelland, where they [probably observe a dance] (CN I ! #414). They pass the River Bode to the village of Hiitten- ! rode, and finally to the town of Blankenburg, where they j evidently spend the night. They visit the castle of the Duke of Brunswick; STC's coat has "an immense rip under ye ! arm" (EJM 227). (CN I #415 and n; MM Oct 1835, 218ff; "The j Amulet", 1829: Carlyon I, 110-12; CL I #280; JG 136-37.) i i 49. May 15 i STC and company leave Blankenberg in the morning, see the towers of [probably Bernberg, near what is probably the j Elbe]. Pass a small lake which empties under the road bridge. They proceed to Wernigerode, where they visit the j Stolbergs; are invited to the feast Graf Stolberg is giving j for his people, decline because of their dress, and proceed | to Goslar via Ilsenburg, where they spend the night in crowded quarters. (CN I #416,417; MS Journal; Carlyon I, j 113-14; CL I #282; EJM 228.) 50. May 16 (-18) The party leave Goslar, after visiting the Vitriol Manufactory and the Dome Church. They pass through Lehr- ■ berg, spend the night in Clausthal, where they are tired, so remain till the morning of the 18th (see 1799:52). (CL I #282; Carlyon I, 114-15; EJM 229.) RS writes Edith Southey: The publication of STC's "Ode upon France" in the Spirit of the Public Journals as "The Recantation." (NL 191; GCL 4977” 51. May 17 The party remain at Clausthal on this day. All the party except STC visit the mines. STC remains at the inn, writing to his wife: How the German women carry their | babies. Events of May 11-13. At night he writes her an? other letter, covering the events of May 14. Encloses "Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode in the Hartz Forest" i (PW I, 315-17; GCL 56). (CL I #280,281.) 52. May 18 STC and party leave Clausthal, pass through Osterode, Catlenburg, and behind the Harz Mountains, till they see the ruins of the Plesse, four miles from Gdttingen. STC visits; Hardenberg and the Plesse [possibly at this time, or pos sibly on a later visit to Hardenberg House (Carlyon I, 151; : Friend I, 51).] (CN I #419 and n; Carlyon I, 151; Friend I; 51; CL I #282.) j (1799)160 ; ! 53. May 19 STC writes SC from GOttingen: He returned the previous night, found no letters from home. Events of May 15-18. ; (CL I #282.) | . i 54. May 20 ; i In GOttingen, STC hears nightingales, sees frogs and aj bat. (CN I #241; cf. "The Nightingale," 11. 14-15: PW I, 264; GCL 45.) i 55. May 21 STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Gottingen: He will be' leaving Germany three weeks from this day (see 1799:63). Malthus1 Essay on Population. He has learned to read and speak German. His "Opus Maximum" or life work. (CL I #283.)17 56. [1799, May 22] STC and party visit Htlbichen Stein [possibly on May 22]. STC is ill in the evening. (CN I #422; Carlyon I, 137.) 57. [Probably May 1799] STC records the following notebook entries: a. A note about the "fable of the 4 Wheels"— a re ference to Ezekiel 1:16-21; 10:1-22, and an image of the imagination that appears in BL II, 56: the wheels! that "take fire from the mere rapidity of their mo tion." (CN I #425.) b. A note, possibly in relation to SC, that when he is angry with her, he should reflect how she would weep j if he died, as though such thinking might possibly make a difference in the anger. (CN I #432 (30).) c. A list of German sounds to aid STC's pronunciation; but Kathleen Coburn points out that the list is either i inadequate or entirely wrong. (CN I #433; J. C. Young, A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, 1871, II, 173ff; Litchfield 70; CL I #283.) 17 1 The first recorded mention of this projected and ne- , ver completed work on the part of STC himself. For TP's expression of an idea close to it, see 1795:23, Poole I, 121-23. See DA, ch. 13 for a discussion of this work. I (1799)161 i i 58. June 2 j . i W writes Joseph Cottle [from Sockburn]: Inquiries about sale of LB and what is to be done about the copyright | (see 1798:154,156,175; 1799:47). AM to be replaced by other poems if LB should sell. W would like three copies of LB for friends; will he have to buy them? (EY #116; GCL 35,! 50.) ; 59. June 12 j Greenough, [the two Parrys, Chester, Carlyon, Bliimen- bach] walk to Wilhelmsthal, near Hesse Cassel. STC is un able to go with them because of a rip in his breeches. He stays to have it repaired, leaves later, reaches Minden this night. (EJM 227.) 60. [1799, June 13] STC leaves Minden, proceeds to Cassel, where he has difficulty locating Greenough and the rest of the party. (EJM 227.) 61. [June 22] STC and friends visit the castle of Herr von Berlepsch, about fifteen miles from Gdttingen. They spend the night at Mollnfeld, under a tree, after an adventure with an in hospitable landlord. (CN I #447 and n; Carlyon I, 35-8; EJM 223-25.) 62. [June 23] [STC and friends probably return to Gottingen from Mollnfeld (see 1799:61).] Professor Blvimenbach gives a party for the English [probably on this night]. (CN I #446n; Carlyon I, 161.)-*-8 Blumenbach, Jr. writes a note of farewell to STC, with parti cular reference to their trip through the Harz Mountains, [probably either after midnight at this party, or on the 24th, when STC and party left Gottingen for the second visit to the Brocken on their way home]. (CN I #446 and n; RX 604 (n-r.) | l®Kathleen Coburn gives the date of the party as Sat June 23, an error, as June 23 fell on a Sun in 1799. Since STC and company were at Mdllnfeld the night of the 22nd, which was the Sat, the party must have been given on the 23rd, which was Sun. Also, according to Carlyon, the party was given the night before they left, and they left on June 24. [ ............................ '.. (1799) 162 ; | | 63. June 24 j Bltimenbach, Jr. writes his note of farewell to STC [possibly on June 24]. (See 1799:62.) ! STC and Chester leave Gdttingeri for home, in company with Greenough and Carlyon. They travel in Brandes's coach ; with Heinrich Frede. They dine at Northeim. STC and Greenough become separated from the party about three miles I from Clausthal; rejoin the party. About two miles from Clausthal, the horse falls down in the dark into a rut; Frede apparently charms the horse. They arrive Clausthal ! 11:30 p.m.; [apparently spend the night at Clausthal]. (CN I #447 and n; EJM 231.) 64. [1799] June 24 W writes to Cottle from Sockburn: Would like exact in formation on number of copies of LB sold; AM appears to have' injured their sale (by its archaisms and its strangeness)— ; would put shorter poems in its place if a second edition is called for. Send three copies of LB to Charles Lloyd; W can easily get them from Penrith. Their plans for residence are unsettled. They seek news of STC. (EY I #117; GCL 35,50.) 65. June 25 STC, from Clausthal, writes Charles Parry in Gottingen:! The party are safe at Clausthal, after the incident with the horse of the day before (see 1799:63). (CL I #284.) 66. [1799, June 25] STC and company leave Clausthal [probably on June 25], proceed to the Brocken, where they spend the night in a wretched inn built on the Heinrichshdhe. (CN I #447 and n; Carlyon I, 170-71; cf. Meyers Reisebucher Der Harz (1909) 85.) 67. [1799, June 26] STC and party experience a beautiful sunrise on the Brocken. They remain on the Brocken this day, spend the night [probably at Elbingerode]. Greenough is ill. (CN I #447; Carlyon I, 172-73.) 68. [1799, June 27] STC and party leave Elbingerode, visit Rosstralp (which Carlyon calls "a romantic glen"), spend the night at Blan- kenberg. (CN I #447; Carlyon I, 173,175.) (1799)16• |69. [1799, June 28 (-June 30)] i j . | STC and party travel from Blankenberg to Wolfenbiittel, j[where they apparently spend the night]. (CN I #447; Carl-! yon I, 175-76; EJM 232.) j [They probably remain in Wolfenbiittel till June 30 (see 1799:72).] | 70. June 29 ; : • ^ STC sees a view from the Ramparts neair Wolfenbiittel that reminds him of the country near Stokehouse in England. (STC and party visit the library where Lessing had been li brarian, expecting to see Langer, his successor, who does (not appear. (CN I #447; Carlyon I, 176-77; EJM 232.) (71. [1799, probably June 29] STC sees a German peasant walking with his arm locked ;in that of the woman who is walking with him. Comments on ! jthis in his notebook, as not showing the proper respect and! (support he ought to have for her. (CN I #448 and n; cf. Carlyon I, 131.) j In the library at Wolfenbiittel, STC sees the famous | portrait of the German poet Hans Sachs, painted by Andreas Herneisen— the portrait of Herneisen painting the portrait i of Sachs in his workshop. (CN I #449; BL I, 140.) In the library, STC also sees, and records in his journal, the inscription on the Lessing memorial. (CN I #450.) 72. [1799, probably June 30 (-July 3)] [Apparently the party leave Wolfenbiittel on June 30 I (for Brunswick (Braunschweig), where they remain until July 3.] While at Brunswick, STC and party converse with (several learned Germans: Professors Roose, Zimmerman, ! Wiedemann, and Eschenburg. STC makes a note to send all of ( (his own works to Greenough, and Wordsworth's to Professor ; (Wiedemann. Refers to William Cowper's poems, a sign of his! admiration for Cowper at this time. (CN I #452 and n; Carl yon I, 177-86; CL I #285 nl, p.520.) 73. [Probably between June and Dec 1799] i STC records in his notebook his first recorded criti cism of both Hazlitt and Wordsworth. (CN I #262 and n.) 74. [c July 1] j t i : A review of LB by Dr. Charles Burney appears in The ! Monthly Review ,(ser. 2, XXIV, June. 1790). (See Smith 34-37; r ........"" ....... '. "" ~ .(1799) 164 i _ . . . • i ;EKC 115? GCL 50.)19 | i f ;75. [July 3] ! t , * I ‘ 1 At Brunswick [probably on July 3] STC and Chester ! separate from Greenough ana Carlyon, who return to Gottin- ' ,gen. STC and Chester go to Helmstedt. STC delivers a let-j iter to Hofrath Bruns? spends time in the library with ;Bruns. [At the library, STC probably sees an edition of Hans Sach's Sehr Herzliche Schdne, and copies down the i title page of vol I of that edition (the 1590 ed.? actually; jthe 1589 ed. with a new title page).] . STC goes to Bruns' house? stays till after 11:00 p.m. Spends the night in Helmstedt. (He and Chester remain in Helmstedt until July 4 or 5. See 1799:78.) 76. July 4 ; Still at Helmstedt on the morning of July 4, STC re ceives a note from Bruns that Beireis will see Chester and ;him at 10:00 a.m. They do see him then? he shows them his j paintings of the masters. (CL I #284.) j 77. [1799,] July 4 DW writes TP from Sockburn: Germany, their departure from it and STC ten weeks ago (see 1799:37)? their trip to Sockburn. They are anxious to hear from STC. Berkeley's death (see 1799:15). Their uncertainty about their future plans for a residence. (EY I #118.) 78. [1799, July 4 or 5] STC, Chester return to Brunswick from Helmstedt. (CL I #284,285.) 79. [Probably between July 4 and Sept 10] [W, DW determine to settle in the North.] (See 1799:77,103? CL I #289? Moorman I, 447? MRWC 270 nlO.) 19See 1799:2n. ; ! 2 9 C a r l y o n jr iq6 says that they separated "the fol lowing day" after their arrival in Brunswick, which would ; be July 1. But CL I #285 to George Greenough gives an j account of the time spent since "Wednesday morning after jquitting you" (Wed was July 3), as though the separation oc-r purred July 3. (1799) 165 :80. July 6 ; STC writes George Greenough. from Brunswick: He and j Chester saw Beireis at Helmstedt on July 4 (see 1799:76). j STC's baggage has not come; was due July 1. STC will write; again from Celle. (CL I #285. See 1799:82.) j 81. [Probably c mid-July, certainly by July 29] i STC returns to England from Germany. (Wedgwood ac counts, Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston. See Meteyard 99; CL I : #286.) 82. July 18 George Greenough writes STC: STC's interview at Miil- hausen with Beireis must have been a treat (see 1799:76). ! Greenough hopes STC's "books and cloaths" [sic] arrive in Hamburg "in good time." (EJM 233. See 1799:80.) 83. July 26 George Greenough writes his aunt, Mrs. Greenough: The June 22 visit to Hesse Cassel (see 1799:61). (EJM 223-25.) ' 84. [1799] July 27 W writes to Joseph Cottle from Sockburn: Thanks Cottle for favorable news of LB sale, fears overoptimism in Cottle's remarks. Has heard of a review in The Monthly Review (see 1799:74) , but does not know its contents. His ; aversion to publication. (EY #119. See 1799:85; GCL 50.) ; 85. [Probably July 27; otherwise, between July 27 and shortly before Oct 25 or 26] [The letter to Cottle of July 27 (see 1799:84) pro- ' bably also contains] remarks of W's published separately by; Knight, as a fragmentary letter from W to Cottle, Sockburn,; 1799: RS's (not altogether favorable) review of LB (see 1798:192); RS knew the sale was important to them finan cially and should have reviewed favorably or not at all; W j cares little for the praise of critics except as a financial aid. (EY #120; MRWC 271 nl2; GCL 50.) 86. [By July 29] STC reaches Nether Stowey on his return from Germany. (CL I #286.) I (1799)1661 87. July 29 ! : ■ i STC writes RS from Stowey: Asks, if not for more un- ! derstanding between them, at least for a greater feeling of | kindness and sympathy. (CL I #286.) ! 88. Aug 8 STC receives from RS a letter justifying RS's accu- i sations of STC, based on Charles Lloyd's information. (CL I #287 nl, p.524.) 89. [1799, probably Aug 8) [Probably on the same day as his receipt of RS1s let ter, STC answers him, calmly affirming his own truth and honesty, and his good will toward RS. Encloses a letter from TP in his defense, attempting a reconciliation between RS and STC. (CL I #287.)21 90. [1799, C ’ . Aug 12 or 13 (-c Aug 26 or 27)] RS arrives Stowey at STC's. (He stays till [probably Aug 26 or 27,] when he leaves with STC on a tour that takes them to Ottery St. Mary and into Devon. See 1799:95.) (NL 199; WL I, 79.) During this visit of RS's, he and STC work together on "The Devil's Thoughts" (PW I, 319-23; GCL 57). 91. [Perhaps 1799, possibly after Aug 15, certainly before j Sept 24] STC writes "Lines Composed in a Concert-Room" (PW I, 324-25 and nl; GCL 58.) 92. [Possibly 1799] STC composes "Westphalian Song." (PW I, 326; GCL 59.) 93. Aug 20 W writes Richard Wordsworth: Has received 30 guineas from Cottle as "part of payment" for LB. (EY #121; GCL 50.)' RS writes Charles Danvers from Stowey: He is writing "at the same table with Coleridge": the mended relationship; C. Lloyd's tales about both of them. TP'S' letter (see 1799:89). (NL 199 n2.) 21Tp's letter is successful; RS pays STC a visit at Stowey and the two families journey together into Devonshire! (see 1799:95) . "..... (1799) 167 i i 94. Aug 24 j ! "The British Stripling's War Song" first published. ' (MP Aug 24, 1799; PW I, 317; PW II, 1129-30. See DA 31 for ! a discussion of the plagiarism involved in this poem.) j ; i 95. [1799, c Aug 26 or 27) (-Sept 10); Sept 24 j STC and family leave Stowey for Ottery St. Mary. RS and Edith leave with them, intending to go to Sidmouth. STC and family arrive Ottery [probably this night). (They stay ! till Sept 10); arrive back at Stowey Sept 24. (NL 199; WL 79; CL I #288-91; CN I #454-457 and ns.) 96. [1799, c Aug 30] (-Sept 3) RS and wife, unable to find lodgings in Sidmouth, go to Ottery St. Mary, where they stay with STC at his rela tives'. RS meets George Coleridge. (RS leaves Sept 3 for Exeter.) (WL 81; CL I #289.) 97. [1799, c Sept 1] (-Sept 29) [As early as Sept 1,] STC and RS are planning a poem in hexameters on Mohammed. (CL I #292 nl, p.531; PW I, 329-30; GCL 60.) STC's 14-line contribution is almost surely completed by Sept 25 (see 1799:115). 98. Sept 1 RS writes William Taylor23 of Norwich from Ottery St. Mary: Has been rambling over the Devonshire country, finds I it flat and uninteresting. Will stay a few weeks at Exeter.I No lack of society with STC near. STC's message to Taylor regarding a statue of the poet Biirger lately raised at Gdttingen. RS and STC's projected hexameter poem on Mo- 1 hammed (PW I, 329-30; GCL 60): WTM I, 293-94. See 1799:132! for Taylor's reply.)24 ! 22The poem is never completed. ' i 23Son of William Taylor, a manufacturer of Norwich, and Sarah Wright Taylor; a good friend of RS's; pub a transla tion of Burger's Leonore. 24Sandford says (Poole I, 303) that early in Sept STC j "was with the Wordsworths in the North." I find no evidence; of this: STC seems to have been only with RS, at Stowey and! Devonshire, in mid-Aug to mid-Sept 1799. He is with the W'sj in Oct, however (see 1799:133). : (1799) 168 I 99. Sept 3 RS and Edith leave Ottery and journey to Exeter, where they lodge at Mr. Tucker's Fore-Street-Hill. (WL 81? CL I #289.) RS writes John May: Expects to remain Exeter till Michaelmas. (WL 31.) ! I : 100. Sept 6 "The Devil's Thoughts" first published. (MP Sept 6, 1799; PW I, 319-23; GCL 57.) 101. Sept 6 RS writes Thomas Southey from Exeter: Received let ters from STC and TP at Minehead which restored his friend ship with STC (see 1799:89); two-week visit at Stowey (see 1799:90); STC now at Ottery; projected Devon tour with STC. Will go to Burton at Michaelmas. Very busy on "a huge hexa-j meter work" with STC (probably the poem on Mohammed? see GCL 60). (NL 199.) 102. [Probably c but by Sept 8] W writes to STC [from Sockburn] (letter not sur viving) : Informs STC that he is quite unwell. (CL I, 525-27; MRWC 273 nl3.) 103. Sept 10 STC receives a letter from W in the morning at Ottery i (see below). STC, SC leave Ottery for Exeter, where they meet RS. They spend this night at Exeter. (CL I #288.) STC writes Richard Wordsworth from Exeter, regarding a shirt and some other items that were to have been sent on j to him from STC, via Stutfield. The items have not arrived,! and STC is concerned. (CL I #288.) STC writes TP from Exeter: Will TP write Stutfield , about the shirt for Richard Wordsworth (see above)? STC has; heard from W(see above): He is ill, has renounced the idea; of taking Alfoxden again. STC would like it for himself, but is doubtful that Cruikshank will be able to obtain it. Tomorrow he takes a tour of 3-4 days with RS (see 1799:104).! (CL I #289.) [Possibly on the same day,] STC writes W from Exeter: Encouragement to continue with The Recluse. (CL I #290.) 104. Sept 11 [-Sept 15 or 16] STC, RS begin the Devon tour Sept11. (They arrive ; (1799r 169] ; I back in Exeter probably Sept 15 or 16.) (CN I #454-56 and ! n, II #1580-82; CL I #291; WL 84-85; NL 199.) | On Sept 11 they pass over a bridge of rocks at Leslie j Cleve, still containing the foam from the torrent of the | night before. (CN I #454,1580; CL I #291.) ; 105. [1799, Sept 12] j ; . . | STC, on the Devon tour, sees the moon thrusting ; through a slip of white cloud, looking like the narrow part I of an egg. (CN I #455, II #1581; CL I #291.) j 106. [1799, Sept 13] On Friday, Sept 13, Hartley falls down some stairs and injures, but does not break, his arm. (CL I #291.) 107. [1799] Sept 14 STC, RS are in Newton Bushel. STC records a notebook | entry describing RS as a salmon dressed with shrimp sauce. (CN I #456 and n, II #1582; CL I #291.) 108. [1799, Sept 15 or 16 (-Sept 24)] [Probably on Sept 15 or 16,] STC, RS arrive back in Exeter, completing the Devon tour. [Probably one of these days,] STC, RS dine with Thomas Northmore, a pupil of Wake- ; field's. At his house near Exeter, they meet Hucks, Ken dall, and [Bampfylde].25 (They remain Exeter till [pro bably Sept 24].) (CL I #291.)26 109. Sept 16 STC writes TP from Exeter: He has dined at North- more's (see 1799:108 and n), will be at [Bampfylde's] tomor row. He will be back at Stowey in three weeks (see 1799: 113). Is still uneasy about Alfoxden. (CL I #291.) 2 J o h n Bampfylde, author of Sixteen Sonnets (1778) . ; ! 26In his letter of the 16th to TP (CL I #291), STC says, "I am just returned from a little Tour of five days" (the tour began the 11th from Exeter; see 1799:104). In the same letter, he speaks of having dined with Northmore as though it did not occur on the day of the writing of the letter: "I have dined with a Mr. Northmore..." Therefore, ; it seems likely that they arrived in Exeter Sept 15, and that the dinner at Northmore's occurred the same day. (1799)170: 110. Sept 17 | "Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode in the j IHartz Forest" first published. (MP Sept 17, 1799: PW I, 315-16; GCL 56.) 111. [1799, probably Sept 17] STC, RS dine with [Bampfylde] in Exeter [probably on Sept 17.] (CL 1 #291.) 112. Sept 22 RS writes Cottle from Exeter: He has his own and STC's pieces for the Annual Anthology; desires some from Cottle. (CS II, 24.) 113. [1799, Sept 24 (-on or shortly after Oct 8)3 In the evening of [probably Sept 24,] STC, SC arrive home at Stowey from Devon. (STC remains in Stowey till on or shortly after Oct 8, when he goes for a few days to Up- cott, temporary residence of Josiah Wedgwood (see 1799:126). (CL I #292.) 114. Sept 24 "Lines Composed in a Concert Room" first published. (MP Sept 24, 1799; PW I, 324-25 and nl; GCL 58.) 115. Sept 25 STC writes RS from Stowey: He and SC arrived Stowey last evening (see 1799:113). He is worried that they have all been exposed to [possibly smallpox], but thinks they will be all right. He intends to continue with "the Mo hammed" (PW I, 329-30; GCL 60). (CL I #292.) 116. Sept 29 STC writes "Hexameters." (PW I, 326; GCL 61.) 117. [Probably late Sept or early Oct 1799] 62.) STC writes "Hymn to the Earth." (PW I, 327-29; GCL 118. Sept 29 STC writes his brother George from Stowey: Request for the volumes of Daniel Sennertus' works at Mr. Hart’s; ....(1799) 171 : I ! also some other books. Includes a copy of his translation of Psalm 46 into hexameters (PW I, 326; GCL 61). (CL I ! #293.) ; | 119. Sept 30 STC writes RS from Stowey: RS should procure a copy of Bampfylde's Sixteen Sonnets (1778). Masculine and femi- I nine rimes. Suggests the substitution of "Allah" for "God" | in Thalaba. Hartley has been ill; STC, "sunk in Spinoza," remains "as undisturbed as a Toad in a Rock." Trouble with ; rheumatic pains. He is "not in a poetical mood." Plans a school book as money-making venture; also the publication of his German letters.2? He has serious thoughts of trying to get a couple of pupils. (CL I #294.) 120. [Possibly between Sept and Nov 27, 1799] STC records in his notebook the address of Major- General John W. T. Watson of the Third Foot Guards, on Bryanstone Street in London. (CN I #459.)2^ 121. [Probably Sept or Oct 1799] STC records the following notebook entries: a. The address of Edwards, Templer, Middleton, Johnson, and Wedgwood, Stratford Place, Oxford Street, the bankers on whom he drew for his Wedgwood annuity. (CN I #465.) b. A comment on bad poets who do harm by stealing and. debasing the beautiful images of good poets. (CN I #470; BL I, 25; AP 59; cf. CN II #1236.) c. A description of the smell of poplars in the fall.! (CN I #472; cf. CN II #1549.) d. The London address of John Tobin, the dramatist, and his brother James, who is Humphry Davy's assistant (CN I #473. See CN I #590n; #598n; CL I #561.)29 2?This remains a dream of STC's for some time: see CL I #303,351,356,362,368,387,391. 2®There is no evidence of a visit of STC to Watson. 29There is no evidence that STC visits the Tobins in London during this time. j (1799) 172 ; t ! 122. Oct 3 I RS writes SC from Exeter: Napoleon; Bampfylde. (CS II, 26-29.) 123. [Probably Oct 1799] RS writes STC from Christ Church: RS's dislike of law istudy; his work on Madoc. (CS II, 29-30.) 124. Oct 7 STC writes Thomas Ward30 from Stowey, thanking him for some quill pens: "Were I to write till Pentecost, filling Pentatuechs, my grateful Expressions would still remain merely a Penumbra of my Debt and Gratitude...." (CL I #295; see 1799:125.) 125. Oct 8 STC writes again to Thomas Ward from Stgwey: The same matter of the quill pens (see 1799:124). * ■ 126. [1799, on or shortly after Oct 8 (-Oct 14)] [Either on or shortly after Oct 8,] STC goes from Stowey to Upcott, the temporary residence of Josiah Wedg wood. (He remains till Oct 14, when he returns because of illness.) (CL I #296,298. See 1799:129.)32 127. Oct 11 RS writes from Christ Church to STC at Stowey: RS's arrival at Christ Church. Description of Dorsetshire and Burton. C. Lloyd's christening; his behavior toward STC. Request for "Christabel" for the Annual Anthology.33 The 30Ward was TP's younger friend and apprentice. 31stc had been mistaken about the pens in his Oct 7 letter (see 1799:124): they had been mended by the clerk, Govatt, in Thomas Ward's absence. See Poole I, 304-06. 32In his Oct 15 letter to RS, STC says that he has "spent a few days at Upcott...returned yeisterday." He must have left after the Oct 8 letter to Ward, probably at least by the 11th, in order to have spent "a few days" by the 14thL 33"Christabel" is not published in the Annual An thology . ............(1799) 173 : "Mohammed" project. (NL 200-03; CS II, 26-28. See CL I j #298; GCL 43,60.) j 128. Oct 12 | STC writes W [probably from Upcott (see 1799:126)]: Encouragement to W to finish The Recluse. (CL I #297.) 129. [1799, Oct 14 (-between Oct 15 and 22)] Because of illness, STC returns [on Oct 14] from Up cott, where he has gone a few days before (see 1799:216). (He remains at Stowey till [between Oct 15 and 22] , when he I goes to Bristol with SC (see 1799:131). (CL I #296.) 130. Oct 15 STC writes RS from Stowey: Trouble with rheumatism in head and shoulders; yet he is enjoying his home and his studying very much. Bampfylde (Sixteen Sonnets, 1778). Ex pects to go to Bristol "in a few days" with SC, if he is ; well enough (see 1799:131). He "will set about Christabel with all speed," though he does not "think it a fit opening j Poem" (for RS's Annual Anthology. See GCL 43.) He will not forsake "Mohammed" (see GCL 60), but must write his school book for money first. Charles Lloyd: "a perilous ac- _ guaintance." Perhaps from Bristol he will go to London. (CL I #298.) 131. [1799, between Oct 15 and 22] (-Oct 22) i [Sometime between Oct 15 and 22,] STC goes with SC from Stowey to Bristol. (He stays in Bristol till Oct 22, when he goes north to Sockburn to visit W.) While in Bris tol, he is [probably introduced by Cottle to Humphry Davyl. | (CL I #298 and nl, p.542; CN I #487n; Cottle:Rec II, 46.)3 5 j 3^He does not go to London. He goes with Cottle to Sockburn, where the W's are visiting the Hutchinsons. See 1799:133. 35 . Cottle's chronology is confused at this point, as , usual. He has STC meeting Davy in Bristol after Cottle and j STC's trip north together in the fall of 1799. But there is no record that STC visited Bristol after that trip until May 1800, when he had just returned from a second trip north, this time alone. Since STC dined with Davy at God win's in London in Dec 1799 (see 1799:179), the initial meeting with Davy probably took place earlier, before STC's | Oct trip north with Cottle, when he was in Bristol between j (1799)' 174 132. Oct 18 William Taylor writes RS: Has received his copy of the Annual Anthology: Are the "Goose" and the "Gooseberry | bush" by STC? Thanks to STC for his message about the j Bilrger statue. Can STC give Taylor the inscription on the I statue? (WTM I, 295-96. See 1799:98,139.) ] 133. Oct 22 [-Oct 25 or 26] On- Oct 22, STC and Cottle leave Bristol on a journey j to Sockburn.36 (They arrive in Sockburn [Oct 25 or 26] . ' ) I (CN I #487n; CN I #481-93,1575; Cottle:Rec II, 25-26. See j 1799:136.) 134. [Probably between Oct 22 and 25 or 26] ' a. STC [either passes through or spends the night] at Tadcaster, on his trip north with Cottle. He re- ; cords in his notebook a description of a flock of sheep, and a sick sheep with its head on the ground. (CN I #481 and n.) b. [Evidently on the trip north with Cottle,] STC (and Cottle?) has supper with Mr. Kestell, whom STC denounces as a quack for telling as his own experience a story STC knew as the experience of his brother, Colonel James Coleridge. (CN I #484,1540 and n.) | c. STC records the address of Mr. Lawler on East Street in Red Lyon Square. (CN I #485.)37 d. STC is evidently thinking about Goerge Dyer; makes a note commenting on his character. (CN I #487 and n.i See CN I #1585.) 135. [1799, perhaps Oct 25] j At Easingwold, which is on the route to the north, STC sees some deserted cottages and notes their weedy thatch, as evidence of the poverty of agricultural areas and the move- ! ment to industrial centers. (Easingwold is 25 miles south Oct 15 and 22. Then there was probably another, and more ! extensive, series of meetings between STC and Davy in May of 1800, when STC was again in Bristol after his second trip north. See 1800:89. 36jie evidently goes without telling his wife. See I 1799:147. S^There is no record of STC visiting this person. ! : (1799) 175 of Sockburn.) (CN X #491 and n; see also CN I #1585; cf. CN I #583.) 136. [Probably Oct 25 or 26 (-Oct 30;] Nov 25) i ; 1 STC, in company with Cottle, arrives at Sockburn [pro-; bably Oct 25 or 26].38 There is an exchange between MH and • Cottle relating to STC's "first appearance" (probably the 1797 Poems). STC records in his notebook how pleasant it is to be warmly greeted by a stranger (MH) who has previously j only heard about him, and makes an approving remark about | the manners of "dear Mary." (Cottle leaves [probably Oct 30 (see 1799:143).] (CN I #490-91,498,571,1537,1575,1583,1587;; Cottle:Rec II, 26.) (STC remains in the Sockburn vicinity till Nov 25. See 1799:169.) 137. [Probably 1799, Oct 25 or 26] In the evening, W, DW go out to walk; STC reads parts of the introduction of Bartram's Travels to SH. (CN I #218n. See 1801;224.) 138. [Oct 26 or 27] In the morning, STC, [probably W, and others evidently visit Mr. Ward of Neesham Bank]. (CN I #494, 1488.) 139. Oct 27 i STC observes in his notebook that men who are very humble in public become vain and irritable when they produce anything at all, whether worth noting or not. (CN I #566 and n. Cf. CN I #1571; BL ch. II.) 38"STCNB does not confirm an arrival on 26 Oct, the J date given by Moorman I, 477, and others; it seems to indi- ; cate simply that they had not yet arrived by sometime on the 25th. An entry dated the 25th [see CN I #490] precedes a note on Easingwold [see 1799:135J, which is some 25. miles south of Sockburn; the next entry but one plainly refers to i STC's meeting with MH; the next beyond that refers to the start of the walking trip, 27 Oct. STCNB I, 1575, mentions j being on the road in a post-chaise with 'poor Cottle' on ; 'Oct 22. 23. 24th'; 1583 says that STC was in a postchaise with Cottle at Easingwold on the 25th. It seems at least as1 likely as not that they arrived at Sockburn on 25 Oct. STCNB I, 562, 1579, refer to the Sockburn area." (MRWC 278-74 nl4.) While in the north, STC seems to have received a de finite proposal to take up his residence in London and write; political articles for MP. This prompts his.trip to London ' .............. (1799) 176 I ! RS writes William Taylor from Burton: STC has seen J much of Mackintosh at the Wedgwoods, gives a less favorable : account of him than Taylor (see 1797:122,135). STC's praise of Jeremy Taylor. HD's poetic potential. The "Goose" and :"Gooseberry-bush" are RS's, not STC's. (WTM I, 302; see 1799:132.) 140. Oct 27 [-between Nov 17 and 20 or 21; Nov 26] On the afternoon of Oct 27, STC, W, and Cottle (mounted on the mare "Lily") depart from Sockburn on a walking tour. They proceed by Neesham Bank to Herworth, where they observe the churchyard, and Croft. [They spend the night in Piercebridge, at the George Inn.] (CN I #494 and n, #1588; Hanson 368.) STC, W tour together until [between Nov 17 and 20 or 21 (see 1799:163).] STC returns to Sockburn [Nov 20 or 21]; W returns on the 26th (see 1799:166,170). (On the tour generally, see EY #124; CN I #494-563 passim, #1588-89; these entries include what must be many references to con versations which cannot be given specific dates.)39 141. Oct 28 STC, W, Cottle arrive at 9:30 a.m. at Gainford, where they observe the churchyard. They proceed to Egglestone Abbey, which they reach at 4:30 p.m. [They probably spend the night at Barnard Castle.] (CN I #495 and n; EY #168. See 1799:142. Cf. CN I #1589.) 142. [Probably Oct 29] W, STC, Cottle spend this day in the Barnard Castle- Greta Bridge area; [they probably visit Brignall Church. They probably spend the night at Greta Bridge.] (CN I #496 and n, 1589; CL I #573. See EY #124; "To the River Greta" I n.)40 on Oct 25 or 26. (JDC 105.) •SSL'STC's reference to 'Pierce Bridge,' followed by 'Landlady and Alfred,' with the next entry beginning 'Oct. 28th,' indicates where they passed the night." (MRWC 274 nl5.) 4®"Moorman I, 448, indicates that W and STC traveled to Temple Sowerby (and thus would have parted from Cottle) on 29 Oct, but STCL I, 543, shows they left Cottle at Greta Bridge the morning of 30 Oct. If they slept at Greta. Bridge; it would, of course, have been the 29th that they did so. [See 1799:143.] EL 287, however, confirms that they also j ; .....-.....■ ■ ■.......... - .... (1799) 177 ] ; I i143. [Probably Oct 30 and shortly after] j [Probably on Oct 30, ] W, STC part from Cottle at Greta Bridge; [Cottle sets off for London, perhaps via Sockburn; j on the same day,] W, STC take the mail coach over [Stain- imore] to Temple Sowerby, where W learns that Christopher Wordsworth has gone to Cambridge and that JW is at New- biggin; W sends a note; JW comes. W learns from JW that j Christopher Crackanthorpe Cookson, W's uncle, has left DW £100 and no one else anything. JW agrees to join STC and Wl for a few days' travel (Cottle:Rec II, 26; CL I #299. Cf. EY #124. See also EY #140; CN I #572 and n.) [Shortly after,] Cottle, giving up publishing, sells j his copyrights except Fox's Achmed and LB to Longman; pre- ; sents LB copyright to W. (Cottle:Rec II, 26-27. See Moor-; man I, 487. 144. [Probably Oct 31] [STC, W, JW set off together; see the Hartshorn Oak, Mayborough; perhaps also the Giant's Cave on the banks of the Eamont. They dine with the Rev. Thomas Myers at Bar ton; proceed to Bampton, where they spend the night. Per haps on the way to Bampton, they see and laugh at a "back- : side"-shaped hill near Pooley Bridge. (W refers to the Hartshorn Oak, near Penrith, although not necessarily this visit, in "Hart's-Horn Tree"— WPW III, 277,534-35.)] (CL I #299; CN I #496,560,798. See Moorman I, 449. Cf. EY #124.) 145. [Probably c Nov 1] A review of LB, probably by Wrangham, appears in The 1 British Critic (XIV, Oct 1799). (See Smith 37-41; GCL 50.) spent a night at Barnard Castle. J. B. S. Morritt, men tioned STCNB I, 497, was the proprietor of Rokeby, near Greta Bridge, in 1799 (Paterson). The date of W's encoun ter with the landlady, who explained the origin of the name: of the River Greta by calling attention to the shape of the; bridge ("To the River Greta" n), is unknown, but might well be now." (MRWC 275 nl7.) 41»Margoliouth 66 says that Cottle took the coach to ! Bristol; but even leaving aside the question of what hap pened to the mare 'Lily' (or 'Lilly') ([see 1799:140]; EL 238), there seems no reason to doubt Cottle's own state-! 'ment that he proceeded to London (Cottle:Rec II, 26) . Re gardless of the publisher's route, STC and W would have had; to be at Greta Bridge to catch their coach for Temple Sower-; by (Paterson). STCNB I, 572,1571, refer to Temple Sowerby." (MRWC 275 nl7.) (1799) 178 ; ' j 146. Nov 1 | STC, W, JW leave Bampton, walk along Haweswater, over ! Long Sleddale to Kentmere, [where they spend the night]. :(CL I #544; EY #124; CN I #510 and n; Mem II, 304; Mem R, II, 314; Moorman I, 449. 147. Nov 2 SC on Nov 2 is in Old Cleeve Vicarage, expecting to arrive Stowey the next day. She has returned from Bristol along with Hartley, believing that STC has gone to London in search of his traveling chests. The chests, however, have arrived at Stowey, so she expects that STC is now at TP's, where she will find him tomorrow; if not, then she expects there will be a letter from him telling her to re turn to him in Bristol. She evidently does not know that he has gone to Sockburn, and that he will not get in touch with her again until December (see 1799:176). (CL I #299 nl, p.542.) 148. [Probably Nov 2] STC, W, JW walk [from Kentmere] to Troutbeck, Ray- rigg, Bowness, thence across Windermere and on to Hawkshead,' [where they probably spend the night, although Hawkshead contains no horses or lodgings]. W, JW find a great change: among the people since they were last here. (CL I #299. Cf. EY #124. See 1799:146.) Cf. Moorman I, 449. [W refers to this visit: '"Beloved Vale,' I Said, 'When I Shall Con"1; Prel II, 11. 33-41; Prel2 II, 11. 33-40.] 149. [Probably Nov 3 (-Nov 8)] ; [Probably on Nov 3,] STC, W, JW walk via Blelham Tarn, head of Windermere, and Rydal . to Grasmere, where they stay j at Robert Newton's Inn. [They remain there until Nov 8. On their way,] a servant admonishes them for passing in front of Sir Daniel le Fleming's house at Rydal. (CL I #299; EY #124; CN I #511-14; DWJ I, 67n, 104. See 1799:154.) [Probably during this visit at Grasmere, W.forms plans for building beside Grasmere; W also discovers "a small house" (Dove Cottage) at Grasmere which he and DW might ^Kathleen Coburn says (CN I #510ri) that they spend this night in Hawkshead. It seems more probable to me that i they spend it, as Reed indicates, in Kentmere, spending the : following night in Hawkshead (Nov 2), and the night of the 3rd in Grasmere. ........................... (1799) 179 : take.] (CL I #299: EY #124.)43 . j ; ' i 1 ' i 150. [Probably Nov 3-7] a. [Probably at Grasmere,] STC observes the tendency j to vindictiveness and cruelty of some country folk. (CN I #521 and n. Cf. CN I #1553; EY #126; BL II, 32.); i b. [Probably near Grasmere,] STC has the sensation of both seeing and becoming a ghost. (CN I #523 and n; see also CN I #1214.) c. STC, [probably at Grasmere,] notes how much seems i wanting to him in the way of self-expression because he has no facility in drawing or music. He notes, also, as elaborated later (CN I #1554), that in any event, much of one's personality goes unexpressed and i unknown to anyone but oneself and God, much, in fact, ■ known only to God. (CN I #524; cf. CN I #1554.) 151. [Probably Nov 5] ! STC, W accompany JW over [Grisedale Hause]; bid him farewell at [Grisedale] Tarn. [Probably on this day, be fore or after departing from JW,] STC and W ascend Hel- vellyn. [In the evening they possibly walk to the upper waterf||l at Rydal.] (CL I #299; EY #124; CN I #515,516, 1589.) 152. [Probably Nov 6] STC, W remain at Grasmere. They walk to the upper fall at Rydal [perhaps this evening (see 1799:151 and n).] (CL I #299; EY #124; CN I #516. Cf. CN I #529,534,1559.) 40 > Kathleen Coburn says that the party arrived Grasmere on Sunday, Nov 2. This must be an error, because Nov 2 was ; a Sat in 1799. Since it is fairly clear from CN I #511 that the party arrived Grasmere on a Sunday, the date must have ! been Nov 3 (see 1799:148), which also accords with W's ac count in EY #124. j 44The last observation is Coburn's deduction from EY #124. Reed says the walk to the falls occurred Nov 6 (see 1799:152), and Reed seems to me probably right. If they were climbing Helvellyn and walking with JW to Grise dale Tarn on the 5th, they probably did not visit Rydal on the same day. ! (1799) 180j 153. [Probably Nov 7] S j STC, W remain at Grasmere. They start for Dungeon Ghyll; are turned back by bad weather. (CL I #299.) j 154. [Nov 8-10; probably Nov 8] i [On Nov 8/ STC/ W walk from Grasmere to Keswick, where they remain till Nov 10 (see 1799:155) . While in Keswick i they perhaps see, or even stay with, William Calvert.) (See i CN I #535 and n, 564; Wordsworth and Coleridge 136.) [Probably on Nov 8,] STC, W write to DW [from Kes wick): Their trip, itinerary. Various events. The meeting with JW. W discusses the possibility of building or at least residing at Grasmere. STC, W will go to Buttermere the day after tomorrow (see 1799:156). STC is much im pressed with the scenery. (CL I #299; CN I #535.) 5 155. [Nov 10] STC writes RS from Keswick [in the morning] : From Keswick he will go to London, "where I have had...a sort of offer made to me of a pleasant kind" [an offer of regular employment on MP] . He and SC may reside in London for four or five months. Still thinks "Christabel" not a good opening poem for RS's anthology (see 1799:43). Discusses the 1799 anthology; suggests an organization for the 1800 edition. Encourages RS to continue with Madoc. STC will publish an essay on epic poetry with reference to the Ma doc. ° Has made his trip to the Lake District count "in a pecuniary way."4? (CL I #300.) 45"The comments of STCNB I, 535, on things seen 'Fri day' (see 535n) leave little doubt that the poets walked to Keswick over Dunmail Raise and along Thirlmere Friday 8 Nov.; W says they have remained at Grasmere 'till to day.' Any implication in this phrasing that they were still there when; W wrote his part of the letter seems balanced by W's later remark that STC 'was much struck with Grasmere'— an unlikely; comment (inasmuch as it plainly does not refer to their ar- j rival there) if they had not already left. It is possible that W began his remarks on 7 Nov, but since STC describes his approach to Derwent Water (and hence Keswick) 'this evening' at the conclusion of the letter as quoted, 8 Nov is | probably the soundest guess for the date of the letter as a whole." (MRWC 278 nl9.) 46This essay never materializes. 47Shaver suggests (EY 277 n2) that STC may be planning to publish his notes of the tour. If so, he never does it, ! (1799) 181 [Probably not early in the morning, because of STC's letter to RS (see above),] STC, W depart from Keswick, | [walk] to Ouse Bridge, [where they spend the night.] (CL I I #300; CN I #536.)48 156. [Nov 11] STC, W walk from Ouse Bridge to Buttermere, via Lor ton, Crummock Water. [W possibly reaches Lorton via Cocker- mouth, meeting STC on the way; STC at least reaches Lorton via, probably, Embleton.] They spend the night at i 48Mark Reed's guess about these next few days is about as good as any: "Determination of resting places of W and j STC the nights of 10, 11, and 12 Nov offers difficulty, al- ! though their route is fairly clear (as described below in ! the text). STC makes a journal entry about the view from the Inn at Ouse Bridge dated, at the end, the 11th, but whether in the evening or the morning is unclear. The next i three entries, describing sights between Ouse Bridge and Buttermere, are undated. The next entry is dated the 12th, ! and describes the trip from Buttermere to Ennerdale. The next after that begins by describing Ennerdale, but changes to the Wastdale area, and remarks that they left T. Tyson's i (at Wastdale Head— see, for example, STCNB I, 1214) Thurs day morning [the 14th]. Thus they were at Wastdale Head the night of the 13th. It may be regarded as reasonably plain ; that they walked from Buttermere to Ennerdale on the 12th (STCNB I, 540). Beyond that all becomes conjecture. The following suggestions can be made: (a) The STCNB entry dated 12 Nov records activities from the beginning of that day, and thus the poets probably spent the previous night at But termere. (b) They did not walk all the way from Keswick to | Buttermere in a single day, twenty-three or twenty-four miles (and if W went to Cockermouth, some five or so more miles for him), but they probably spent a night at Ouse Bridge on 10 Nov and at Buttermere on 11 Nov, (c) Although ! the walk from Buttermere to Ennerdale via Ploutern Tarn is only about six miles and the distance by that way to Wast dale Head some fifteen to seventeen miles depending on the j route followed, the walk all the way to Wastdale Head would ! have been a rather demanding one; they probably did not make it, but spent the night near Ennerdale Water. They could, nevertheless, conceivably have gone on to Wastdale Head on i the 12th and spent two nights at Tyson's, as suggested STCNB 540n. G. H. B. Coleridge, whose authority is cited as the basis for the STCNB statement— see Wordsworth and Coleridge, ed. E. L. Griggs, Princeton, 1939, 136, 144n— in fact ex- j presses uncertainty on this point." (MRWC 278 n20.) .............. -....... . ... ....■ (1799) 182 j jButtermere, where they see Mary (Robinson) of Buttermere/ [of whom W speaks in Prel VII, 11. 310-59, esp. 326-33; j Prel2 VII, 11. 288-299, esp. 302-08.] (MRWC 279 n21; CN I, i #535n, 537-39.)49 157. [Nov 12] STC, W walk from Buttermere to Ennerdale Water [and probably spend the night there. (They possibly, however, continue on to Wastdale Head and spend the night there; j Coburn says they do, in which case they spend two nights at : T. Tyson's.)] At Ennerdale they learn the story of the death of James Bowman, which forms the basis of the story of the death of James Ewbank in "The Brothers." (CN I #540;; "The Brothers" IF note; Wordsworth and Coleridge 136, 144n; CL I #452.) 158. [Nov 13] STC, W [walk from Ennerdale Water, almost certainly via Black Sail, to Wastdale,] where they spend the night at i Thomas Tyson's. (CN I #541,1214; 1799:155n,157.) 159. [Nov 14] ! STC, W walk from Wastdale to Borrowdale, see a huge yew tree, spend the night (north of) the Yew Tree Rocks. (CN I #541,544.)50 160. [Nov 15] STC, W walk via Grange, Lodore, Derwent Water, "King Pocky Estate" (see CN I #541-42n) to Keswick; thence they walk to Threlkeld, where they spend the night. [If W does not already know the traditional story of Lord Clifford, which is employed in "Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle,"; he possibly hears it at Threlkeld.] (CN I #541-43,549,559 and‘ n; "Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle" n.) : 49 Reed says, "There is no evidence that W visited Cockermouth now, but one doubts that he would have come ! within two miles of it after an absence of over five years Without some attempt to do so. This trip is the only known j occasion before the events of 1802-03, which brought Mary to: public notice, when the poets are likely to have seen her at! the same time (see PREL 583-64)." (MRWC 279 n21.) 50 Neither Reed nor I know the evidence that they spent; the night at Rosthwaite (as stated in CN I #541n; Words worth and Coleridge 136, 144n; Hanson 372) "rather than, say, Longthwaite or Seatoller." (MRWC 280 n22.) j | (1799) 183 i 1161. [Nov 16] STC, W walk from Threlkeld via Matterdale, [Aira iForce,] and the west shore of Ullswater [to Patterdale, where they spend the night]. (CN I #549,552-54.)51 162. [Nov 17] | STC, W walk down the eastern shore of Ullswater to | Eusmere Hill near Pooley Bridge, home of the Thomas Clark- ! isons. They visit the Clarksons, [and probably spend the | night there]. (CN I #551-53,555.)52 | • j 163. [Probably between Nov 17 and 20 or 21 (-Nov 20 or 21 ) ] l i i [Probably between Nov 17 and 20 or 21, STC and W j part. (STC returns to Sockburn by Nov 20 or 21; see j 1799:1644). W's movements after the parting are unknown j (see MRWC 1799:83); he returns to Sockburn Nov 26 (see I 1799:170).]53 51"That they spent the night at Patterdale is not a j certainty, but they did reach Patterdale, and they appear to: have started directly down the eastern shore of the lake ] next morning as if from Patterdale. Probably the comment j of STCNB I, 552, on 'Clark's Niagra' is a reference to Aira' Force, which James Clarke's Survey of the Lakes describes grandly, and not to Clarkson (cf. STCNB I, 552n)." (MRWC i 280 n23.) j 52 . "STCNB records STC's sitting on a stump beside the j lake by Clarksons' on Monday morning 18 Nov. This is not conclusive indication of where they had slept, but the chance that they spent the night at the Clarksons' is per- j haps increased by remarks in an unpublished letter from j Catherine Clarkson to Priscilla Lloyd, 12 Jan 1800, which make it clear that STC and W paid the Clarksons a visit j that amounted to more than a brief call. The following pas-r sage is quoted by permission of the owner of the letter, j Mr. Jonathan Wordsworth: 'I must tell you that we had a | Visit from Coleridge and W. Wordsworth who spent a whole j day with us. C was in high Spirits and talk'd a great dealj ; W was more reserved but there was neither hauteur nor mo- ! roseness in his Reserve He has.a fine commanding figure is I |rather handsome and looks as if he was born to be a great j Prince or a great General. He seems very fond of C. j Laughing at all his jokes and taking all opportunities of j * shewing him off and to crown all he has the manners of a Gentleman." (MRWC 280-81 n24.) 5^Neither Reed nor I "know the evidence on which ....... -....................... (1799) 1841 j t » i } 1164. [Sometime in Nov 1799, probably between Nov 17 and 20] ! | | STC records in his notebook a note on how to begin a | poem on Spinoza. (CN I #556 and n. Cf. #1561; AP 61; CL Ii #170; BL I, 126-27,169-70.) i 165. Nov 20 | ! j STC is at Scotch Corner, enroute to Sockburn, having I trouble with his foot. [He possibly spends the night here.! If not, he arrives Sockburn on this day.] (CN I #1568.) 166. [1799, Nov 20 or 21] (-Nov 25) [On Nov 20 or 21,] STC arrives at Sockburn. (He re- i mains till Nov 25.) (CN I #1568,1575.) 167. Nov 24 [The love affair with SH evidently begins during this; stay of STC1s at Sockburn.] Later he recounts standing by ! the fire, holding her hand behind her back on Nov 24. (CN I #1575 and n.) ; 168. [Between Nov 24 and Dec 1] STC writes ' ’Love." (PW I, 330-35; GCL 63.)54 169. Nov 25 [and probably shortly after] On Nov 25 STC comments on, and probably observes, a print of the Darlington Ox, "made a Thing of Nature by the repeated action of the Feelings"— evidently comparing it to himself and his feelings for SH. He leaves Sockburn for London in the afternoon, [after what is apparently a lin gering kiss with SH]. (He is not then aware of a similar attachment between W and Mary.) (CN I #576 and n, cf. 1578 ; STCNB I, 563n, bases its statement that W and STC parted at j the Clarksons1 on 18 Nov: All that is clear is that STC. was at Scotch Corner on the 20th. Scotch Corner is only nine j miles from Sockburn as the crow flies; so that STC could have completed the journey on the 20th. But the treatment * of his foot at Scotch Corner suggests that he perhaps spent ; a night there. He must have arrived at the Hutchinsons' by I the 21st." (MRWC 281 n25.) ! ^4The poem seems to have been inspired by the en- j counter with SH (see 1799:167). (See T. M. Raysor, "Cole- j ridge and 'Asra,'" Studies in Philology. July.1929, ,307.) I and n; #578, cf. 1576; BL I 20,70-80. Cf. "The Keepsake": PW I, 346.) [DW, SH depart from Sockburn, perhaps to visit John Hutchinson at Stockton-on-Tees. (They probably return Ishortly after.) (See 1799:170; Moorman I, 453.)] 1170. [Nov 26 and probably shortly after] j ! ! I W returns to Sockburn [on Nov 26], finds MH keeping Ihouse alone. [DW, SH probably return to Sockburn shortly.] ! (EL 235; see 1799:169.) ! 171. [1799] Nov 27 [-probably after Mar 23 and before Apr 6, 1800] i In the coach on the way to London, STC awakens to a [beautiful sunrise. It seems a double sunrise, because the isun rises, then moves behind a bank of clouds from which it I jhas to rise again. On this day he also notices flocks of j jstarlings in flight, poverty-stricken huts along the way. j He arrives in London midnight on this night. (CN I #581, J 11589; 582, 1589, cf. 1799; 583, cf. 491; 590, 1591.) (He iremains generally in and about London till [probably after Mar 23 and before Apr 6, 1800,] when he goes north to visit W and the Hutchinsons (see 1800:75). He has accepted an ^engagement to write regularly for MP; takes lodgings at ;21 Buckingham St. Strand (JDC 106). During this time in London, STC prepares and pub lishes his translation of Wallenstein (Poole I, 307; Mar- jgoliouth 72.) [It is probably just after the end of this time in London that William Taylor tries unsuccessfully to contact him.] (See WTM I, 374-75; 1801:125.)55 j During his time in the south of England, [he probably sees Cottle and is given W's receipt for his thirty guineas |for the purchase of the copyright of LB], (Cottle:Rec II, ;27; GCL 50.) He also attends the theater at Drury Lane rather often, and is introduced to Sheridan (see 1801:5.) i • * 172. Nov 28 I ! | In London, STC calls [on either John or James Tobin, probably the latter]. (CN I #590 and n; 1591.) i | 5^I find no record of the letter to TP in which Sand- iford says STC is supposed to have described his London lodgings as "quiet and healthful," and to invite TP to come and stay with him. (Poole I, 307.) ..... - ....... ............. ...T - .. (1799) 186 ; ■ i ! 1 173. Nov 29 I ; . | STC observes London as immovable, a huge sepulchre | through which men move, in harsh contrast to the harmonious j movement of all of nature. (CN I #591,1592.) j : i 174. Nov 30 i ' i I STC, [James or John] Tobin call on Godwin [possibly at Sir Francis Burdett's]. (Godwin (MS diary).)56 ; 175. [Probably 1799, Nov 30] ! STC has a meeting with Phillips, editor and owner of I MM, to discuss some proposed work. (CN I #592,1593 and n.) ! [He also possibly visits T. R. Underwood, the artist.]! (CN I #593 and n, cf. 109; see CL I #435.) j 176. [1799, c Dec 1] STC writes Cottle from London; If SC is in Bristol, tell her to contact STC immediately; he will send money for ; her traveling expenses; they will reside in London "for the i next four months" (see 1800:75). (CL I #301.)57 177. Dec 4 STC, HD call on Godwin. (Godwin (MS diary).) 178. [1799,] Dec 5 In London, STC [probably either visits or is visited by probably James Tobin,] who tells him the story of Mon tagu's; debt to the Pinneys (RES VIII (1932) 5-7. For Tobin; see CN I #473n and #590n.) 179. Dec 7 STC dines at Godwin's in Somers Towers, London, with HD and [either James or John Tobin]. (EY #126 n5; Godwin ! (MS diary). See CL I #303,305; CN I #611 and n.) ^Godwin's diary for this day says, "tea H, Tooke's, W. Burdet [sic], Joice and Wildman; sleep at Burdet's, Coleridge and Tobin call n." It is possible Godwin means that STC and Tobin called at Godwin's while Godwin was at Burdett's, and he thus missed seeing them. Burdett was MP j for Boroughbridge, 1796; for Westminster, 1807-37, (Hanson I 511 n37.) See LCR 164 on STC's meeting with Burdett. ; ; ' ! 57stc has evidently not been in contact with.SC sinceJ f .......................... ~.. (1799).187.1 i ' •• i ;180. Dec, [probably after Dec 8] William Taylor writes RS: STC wrote Taylor "a few days ago, to ask about the Norwich riots." Taylor an- j iswered, told STC all he knows on the subject, (WTM I, 181. Dec 9 ; i "To a Young Lady" first published. (MP Dec 9, 1799; ! PW I, 252; GCL 44.) ! STC dines with "Anthony Carlisle (1768-1840) , sur geon to Westminster Hospital.... at Carlisle's house in Soho 1 Square. The other guests are Godwin,...HD, Tobin, the mu- j sician William Ayrton, 'Carlisle jr.' (probably Carlisle's ; half-brother Nicholas), and a man named Assey...." (EY #126 n5; Godwin (MS diary).) 182. [1799, between Dec 10 and 14] I Lamb writes to Charles Lloyd: He has just learned that STC has taken lodgings with his family in the Adelphi; Lamb has not seen him. (LL 1,163.) 183. Dec 14 STC [possibly visits, or is visited by,] or at least records a reference to, Samuel Purkis, the tanner with li terary and artistic interests. (CN I #608 and n.) 184. Dec 15 j RS writes STC: The employment of George Fricker;59 STC's projected contributions to the Annual Anthology. (NL 207.) 185. [1799, between Dec 17 and 28] STC dines with Lamb; breakfasts with Lamb and Pris cilla Lloyd. (See LL I #55,56.) he left her in Bristol on Oct 22 (see 1799:133). He as sumes she is still in Bristol, does not know that she has returned to Stowey (see 1799:147). 58Both STC's letter and Taylor's answer are ap parently unpreserved. See 1800:23; CL I #315 for STC's only extant letter to William Taylor. 59RS was attempting to secure a bank job for George, SC's brother. --- --- (1799) 188 : i ■ ! 186. [1799, by Dec 19] (-Mar 2, 1800) j : i SC and Hartley join STC at 21 Buckingham Street by ! Dec 19. (They remain till Mar 2, 1800. See 1800:59.) I « (CL I #303, CN I #603 and n.) j 187. [1799, Dec 19] j STC writes RS from London: His concern about RS's j health; he wishes RS could come to London and take lodgings j in the same house with him and SC. The financial problems j of George Fricker. "I am afraid that I have scarce'poetic Enthusiasm enough to finish Christabe'l..." (see GCL 43). He wants to have "France, an Ode," "Frost at Midnight," andj "Fears in Solitude" published again in the upcoming antho- j logy (originally published by Johnson in 1798). He is un certain about his future residence. (CL I #303; GCL 41,40, i 48.) 188. [c, certainly before, Dec 20] STC writes W from London: "I dedicate my nights and | days to Stuart....By all means let me have the tragedy and ; 'Peter Bell1 as soon as possible." (CL I #302; EY #126.) 189. [Probably Dec 20, 1799 (-May 1, 1813)] [Probably on Dec 20,] W, DW proceed to Grasmere from j Kendal in a post chaise, arriving at Dove Cottage probably about 4:30 p.m. They are greeted by Molly Fisher; find no ; preparation for them except beds and a spark of fire. They find two letters from STC (EY #126; MY 687. See MRWC 1799:92). They reside at Dove Cottage until [c end May 1808]. (EdS DW 287. See esp. MY 228-29.) They reside in 1 Grasmere until May 1, 1813. (See MY 559.) 190. Dec 20 Godwin calls on SC in London. (Godwin (MS diary).) 191. Dec 21 ; Hartley, three years old, makes a remark about picking the stars out of the sky with a knife and giving ! them to Anny Sealy, a playmate. (CN I #617; Frag 60: PW II, 1012; CL I #314.) « From London, STC writes Daniel Stuart, enclosing his ; "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie" for publication (PW II, 1052; LB 1800; PW I, 330-35: "Love"; GCL 63.) The ; poem is published in MP for Dec 21, 1799. | (1799) 189 192. Dec 23 t i STC dines at Longman's and meets Pratt and Towers. | |(CL I #305.) ; RS writes STC: Contemplated RS visit to southern I Europe for his health; the necessity of profiting from the sale of Thalaba. Will STC see the London publishers about lit? Northmore in town, would like to see STC (see 1799:108 ; !and n.) "Fears in Solitude," "The Mad Ox": projected pub- j ilication in Annual Anthology. (NL 209-11. See CL I #305; GCL 48.)60 193. [Late 1799, before Dec 24] STC writes "Ode to Georgians, Duchess of Devonshire." j(PW I, 335-38; GCL 64.) 194. Dec 24 i "Ode to Georgians, Duchess of Devonshire" first pub lished. (MP Dec 24, 1799; PW I, 335-38; GCL 64.) STC writes RS, [probably from London]: Thalaba will bring him £200 (see 1799:192). STC is working very hard, ;"a pure Scribbler."61 He leaves London about the first of April (see 1799:75). Sees "no impossibility" in eventually "forming a pleasant little Colony for a few years in Italy or the South of France." Yesterday he dined at Longman's and met Pratt and Towers (see 1799:192). Tomorrow he and SC dine at Godwin's (see 1799:197). (CL I #305.) 195. [Dec 24 (-Dec 27)] [On Dec 24, W begins a letter from Grasmere to STC in London]: W, DW have been in Dove Cottage four days. (EY !#126; see 1799:189,199.) 196. [Late Dec 1799, before Dec 25] STC writes "A Christmas Carol." (PW I, 338-40; GCL 64.) 197. Dec 25 "A Christmas Carol" first published. (MP Dec 25, ! 1799; PW I, 338-40; GCL 65.) STC and family dine with Godwin. (CL I #305,308,309; : I latter is published; the former is not. ! 6^No doubt on the translation of Wallenstein, which I jhe has engaged to do for Daniel Stuart. See 1799:171. ! i . . . . . . . ' . . (1799) 190. ! CN I #619n, 620n; Godwin (MS diary).) [It is possibly at j this dinner] that STC has the conversation with Godwin that j is reported to HD on Jan 1, 1800. (CN I #620n; CL I #308.) j • ■ ! 198. Dec 27 i RS writes from Bristol to STC in London: RS's ill ness; projected trip abroad; the possibility of a companion | •in STC; RS's work on Thalaba. (CL II, 35-37.) 199. [Dec 27] | W finishes his letter to STC from Grasmere (see 1799:195): W, DW journey from Sockburn to Grasmere. (EY ! #126.) : I 200. Dec 28 STC dines at [James or John] Tobin's, with Godwin and ; Major W h i t e . (Godwin (MS diary).) Lamb writes Thomas Manning: Has dined with STC, breakfasted with STC and Priscilla Lloyd. (LL I #56.) 201. [1799, probably Dec 28] STC writes RS from London: STC will see Longman for RS at least by Tues (Jan 1, 1800. See 1799:202). STC re mains concerned about RS's health; places for RS to travel; the new French constitution. RS should write a history of •the Levellers. STC's "Ode to Georgiana" and "Christmas Carol" "will do" for RS's anthology. (CL I #306. See PW I, 335-38,338-40; GCL 64,65.) 202. [1799, Dec 28-1800, Jan 1] STC sees Longman, the bookseller, regarding RS's Thalaba (see 1799:192,201). (CL I #306,308.) • 203. Dec 29 i ; STC dines at Horne Tooke's, with Godwin and [Sir Fran-: cis] Burdett. (Godwin (MS diary).) i , : 204. Dec 31 STC writes TP [from London]: He is hard at work, so that "the year should not end without my writing...." i | (CL I #307.) | I ^unidentified. 1800 1 ;l. {By and during 1800] j Kegan Paul says that by 1800 "Godwin's acquaintance • • I with Coleridge rapidly increased [see 1799:174-203 passim],I ;and had now developed into a most cordial and confidential \ friendship." [It is evidently during 1800 that Godwin has j with STC those conversations that influence the change in I his religious thinking.] (Godwin (Paul) I, 354,357-58.) j 2. [Possibly 1800, Jan] STC writes Daniel Stuart: Will see him Sunday evening.; i (The Sundays in Jan 1800 were the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. See 1799:8.>. (EE I #312.) : - ’ I 3. Jan 1 I STC writes HD [from London]: STC has seen Longman re- ! garding RS's Thalaba (see 1799:202), and finds him "all ! willingness." "...what a little colony" might be made by STC, HD, W, RS, if "the public Good" did not cement HD to Bristol. Scientific questions. Godwin and STC have talked! of HD. (CL I #308.) I 4. [1800, Jan 1] j RS writes STC in London: Projected transcription of j Thalaba for STC. Projected RS history of the Levelling | principles. RS travel plans. , STC.'s "A Christmas Carol" (PW I, 338-40; GCL 64) and "Teli's Birthplace." The Annual' Anthology. Jeremy Taylor's sermons; James Mackintosh. ; ! Godwin's novel St.: Leon (1799). RS's access to the Baptist; ; library. Projected review by the Gentlemen of the Literary! Fund. Estlin expectdd in London. HD expects to hear from i ; STC (see 1799:3). George Fricker's employment at Savary's Bank. (NL 212-14. See 1799:184n.) 5. [1800, probably Jan 1 or 2] i i STC writes TW from London: RS is very weak and in- 191 11800)192 tends to leave England as soon as he finished Thalaba? STCi is well and working hard, though somewhat depressed about } "the present state of human affairs." He beiieves, how ever, in "the progressiveness of all nature," and is now j writing on this subject. He will remain in London till j April. Is writing a series of essays on' drama to be pub- ! lished in MP (see PMLA, June 1954, p. 681) . Has seen "a | good deal of Godwin" lately; has also dined with Horne j Tooke (see 1799:203). (CL I #309.) j 6. Jan 3 j j, ■ • i STC calls on Godwin. Godwin and Samuel Purkis dine at STC's. (Godwin (MS diary).) j 7. Jan 4 I STC and Alexander Walker call on Godwin. (Godwin (MS I diary).) 8. [1800, possibly Jan 5,12,19, or 26] [STC may see Daniel Stuart in London.J (CL I #312.) 9. Jan 8 RS writes from Bristol to STC >in London: RS's deci sion to travel without completing Thalaba; TW to travel to j France; RS's projected attempt to do the same, but prefers j Italy. The possibility of STC going as companion. An an-J ec'dote about Mohammed for STC's. use in MP. Maracci's refu-‘ tation of the Koran. (CS II, 39442.) STC writes Godwin: Tomorrow and Friday STC will be busy, but Sat he can and will spend with Godwin (see 1700: 10) . (CL I #310.) 10. Jan 11 Godwin has tea at STC's. (CL I #310; Godwin (MS di- j ary).) . . . . 11. [1800, early Jan, before Jan 10] STC writes "Talleyrand to Lord Grenville." (PW I, 340-44; GCL 65.) I STC writes Daniel/Stuart about his "Talleyrand to Lord Grenville," which is published MP along with this letter (see 1799:12) . (CL I #311.) (1800) 193 |12. Jan 10 "Talleyrand to Lord Grenville" first published. (MP ; Jan 10, 1800; PW I, 340-44? GCL 65.) STC's letter appears I with it (see 1799:11) . ;13. Jan 15 STC and Godwin have tea at Mary Robinson's.1 (Godwin :(MS diary).) 14. Jan 16 RS writes STC: The French Revolution? Mary Hays.2 RS idle except for Thalaba. Expects Rickman at Bristol. The printing of Annual Anthology. The superiority of Euro peans over Orientals. (NL 214-17. See 1800:23.) 15. [Possibly Jan 18, 1800] [STC possibly either visits or is visited by John Haz- litt, the painter, brother of William; or else possibly they meet at Godwin's.] (CN I #632 and n.) 16. [1800,] Jan 18 On this rainy morning, STC sees a beggar and her chil dren asleep on a solitary street. (CN I #633.) STC, Godwin have supper at Mary Robinson's. (Godwin (MS diary) .) 17. [1800, before Jan 21] STC dines with Samuel Purkis in London. Purkis writes to tell TP. (Poole II, 4.) STC writes TP from London: He is much pleased with the idea of the house at Aisholt, some three miles from Stowey (CL I #313 n2, p. 562). They must live close to a |town, "...that situation which suits my wife does not suit 'me, and what suits me does not suit my wife. However, that which is, is,— a truth which always remains equally clear, but not always equally pleasant...." (CL I #313. See 1800:18.)3 ^'lTSS-lSOO. Mistress of the Prince of Wales (later ;George TV). Also a writer of note." (Hanson 511 n41.) 2A novelist with whom Charles Lloyd was acquainted. 3Thei first real indication in the letters of disagree ment or friction betweenSTC and his wife. I (1800)194 i ! , t 18. Jan 21 ! ' < . j | TP writes to STC: Purkis says he dined recently with ’ \ jSTC (see 1800:6). STC must be careful not to be influenced; by men with atheistic sentiments and ideas. STC should read Harrington. TP is concerned that journalism .is not what STC is best suited for. TP has sensed a duty on the Ipart of STC's friendship for him lately rather than a jpleasure. (Poole II, 2-4. See 1800:17. See 1800:46 for | STC's reply.) ;19. [Probably 1800, Jan 22J [STC probably attends a lecture given by James Mackin tosh,! with whom he has philosophical differences relating to John Locke. He discusses these differences, BL I, 67ff. (CL I #316, 380-84; MP Jan 23, 1800. See 1800:25, 26, 34, 37.) 20. [Jan 23) Lamb writes STC: "I expect Manning of Cambridge in town to-night— will you fulfill your promise of meeting him; at my house? He is a man of a thousand.1 1 (LL I #57.)4 22. [1800, before Jan 25J STC sees Mary Hays. (CL I #314.) 23. J an 2 5 STC writes RS from London: Encloses a poem by Mrs. Mary Robinson that RS- should-indude in the anthology • ("Jasper," 18 00 Annual Anthology) . STC has seen Mary Hays; C. Lloyd's conduct toward her has been atrocious. TW is going to the Isle of St. Nevis. STC must stay in England; "a circumstance has taken place, which will render a Sea- voyage utterly unfit for SC."5 Hartley is well. Has dis- 4After a long silence, another letter, the first pre served of the second period of their correspondence. Tho mas Manning was the second son of the Rev. William Manning, rector of Broome and Diss in Norfolk. Thomas was born at Broome on Nov. 8, 1772. While a tutor at Cambridge, he de veloped an interest in the Chinese language and people which took him to China in 1806. He lived later in Cal cutta, visited Napoleon on St. Helena. Died at Bath May 2, 1840. (See ML'15-16.) 5SC is pregnant with Derwent, who was born Sept 14 (see 1800:194). f (1800) 195 |covered "so scoundrelly an act of Sheridan's and so das- j tardly a one of Stuart's— that X. am half-inclined to with- s 'draw myself from the Morning Post. "6 (.CL I #314. See 1800:14.) | STC writes William Taylor of Norwich: The MP scandal?: jthe poet Btlrger? the inscription on Btlrger's. statue recent-: ly erected in Gottingen (.see WTM I, 296; 1799:132). (CL I #315. See EY #104.) 24. Jan 26 Sophia Lloyd writes Thomas Manning: "I like Coleridge very much, but I shall count him mine enemy if he contribute the least little towards diminishing your affection for your old friends [Charles and Sophia Lloyd]— you have a Strong sight and I do not care for your being a little 'dazzled' you [sic] will soon recover that— but this is !all we can allow without a feeling bordering on jealousy." (LM 41.>7 :25. [Probably Jan 28, 1800J [STC probably attends a lecture given by James Mackin tosh (see 1800:19).] (CL I #316, 380-84? MP Jan 23,; 1800.) 26. Jan 30 RS writes TP: STC's articles for MP. (NL 22 0.) [STC probably attends a lecture given by James Mackin tosh (see 1800:19).] (CL I #316, 380-84? MP Jan 23, 1800.) 27. Jan 31 Godwin and John Leslie8 have tea at STC's. (Godwin (MS diary).) 28. Feb 2 RS writes Thomas Southey: The past quarrel with STC. jRS's present opinion of C. Lloyd: "With Lloyd I have no quarrel. He remains an acquaintance, whose faults cannot 6Sheridan had given a false report of a riot he had observed in Norwich to Daniel Stuart, who had printed the report, knowing it was false, in MP Jan 22, 1800. 7Manning had apparently been impressed by STC? perhaps STC had spoken somewhat disparagingly of Charles Lloyd. ® (1766-1832), mathematician and natural philosopher,to whom TW granted an annuity in 1797. ....... . ' ■ ..... .... ..... ""V.... -..- ......-.... (1800) 196 1 i i injure, and shall not irritate me.” (Nl 222.) j 29. [Possibly c Feb 2, 1800J [STC possibly writes to Miss Mary Brown, an--unknown • j poetess whose verses have been published by the Berkshire Chronicle, and admired by , STC.J (CN I #646 and n; MS let- | ter, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.) [STC possibly recites "The Reverie of Poor Susan" (WPW j XI, 217) to either Thomas Ward, TP's, young assistant, or to I Ward's brother George, who keeps a bookshop.] (CN I #647 and n.) 30. Feb 3 RS writes William Taylor: Taylor has probably learned j from STC about the "rascally" conduct of Sheridan about the j Norwich riots. (WTM I, 326. See 1799:180; 1800:23.) i 31. [Probably 1800, probably Feb 2 or possibly Feb 21] STC notices and describes in his notebook "the fat Semicircle of an Infant's Cheek / The rosy convex" (CN I #649 and n. Cf. "Christabel" I, 1. 648: PW I, .235, GCL 43; "The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree" 1. 67: PW I, 397) . Either of these dates may be the day on which STC purchases the notebook in which the entry appears. 32. Feb 3 RS writes William Taylor: The projected long poem on Mohammed of RS and STC; STC's. dereliction. (CS II, 48; see GCL 59.) 33. 8:00 a.m. Feb 3-3:00 a.m. Feb 4 STC attends a debate in the House of Commons on the advisability of a negotiated peace with Napoleon. He goes at 8:00 a.m. Feb 3, remains till 3:00 a.m. Feb 4. He takes notes which are published MP, Feb 7, 1800: EOT I, 285-93; II, 367-71, "Analysis of the Debate in thei House of Com mons, Feb 3, 1800." (CL I #316; CN I #651 and n.) 34. [Probably 1800, Feb 4] [STC probably attends a lecture given by James Mackin tosh.] (CL I #316, 380-84; MP Jan 23, 1800. See 1800:19.) ! 35. [1800, Feb 4] STC writes Josiah Wedgwood, from London: The up-com ing sea-voyage of TW; STC's concern. Montagu is cool.STC (1800) 197 lhas been three times to the House of Commons [but see 1800: 431; has attended Mackintosh's lectures regularly (see |1800:19,25,26,34). (CL I #316.) ; 36. Feb 5 STC calls on Godwin; theiy talk of tragedy. (Godwin ; (MS diary) .) 37. [Probably 1800, Feb 6] [STC probably attends a lecture given by James Mackin tosh.] (CL I #316, 380-84; MP Jan 23, 1800. See 1800:19.) [Probably on Feb 6] Lamb is at STC's and becomes drunk. (LL I #58.) 38. [1800, probably Feb 7] Lamb writes Thomas Manning: Lamb's opinion of C. Lloyd's recent affair with Mary Hays; Lloyd's report of STC's lie to the Rev. George Caldwell at Cambridge (see 1800:61). Projected supper at STC's this evening, where Lamb is to meet Godwin; supper tomorrow at Manning's with STC (see 1800:41). (LL I #58.) 39. Feb 7 Godwin, Lamb, [James or John] Tobin, [Basil] Montagu, [John] Pinney have tea at STC's. [This is Lamb's first meeting with Godwin. Lamb is again drunk (see 1800:40).] (Godwin (MS diary); LL I #58.) 40. [1800, probably Feb 8] Lamb writes a P.S. to his previous day's letter to Manning (see 1800:38): Dinner with Godwin today, drunk "two nights running" at STC's. (LL I #58.) 41. Feb 8 Godwin, STC, SC dine at Lamb's. (Godwin (MS diary).) [STC, Lamb probably have supper with Thomas Manning.] (LL I #58.) 42. [Feb 10-probably 1:00 a.m. Feb 11] STC goes again to the house of Commons [on Feb 10], takes notes on Sheridan's speech on the expedition to Hol- iland. [He apparently stays through till the end of the session at 1:00 a.m. Feb 11.] Reported in MP Feb 11, 1800. j (CL I #318; CN I #652.) (1800) 198 43. iFeb 12J j | STC writes RS from. London: He has attended the House iof Commons debates twice (see 1800:33,42,)V Longman is giv ing trouble about RS' s desire to have Thalaba published anonymously, "...we might easily toss up a novel...." SC will leave London in two-three weeks, spend five weeks with j ithe Roskillys and a week or two at Bristol (see 1800:33, 42). When she goes, STC will give up lodgings and stay with Purkis at Brentford.9 In May he will join SC in Bris tol, go with her to Ottery St. Mary, unless RS goes to Bur-: [ton, in which case they will go too and spend May, June, perhaps July with RS (see 1800:75). SC "must be settled in; ja house by the latter end of July, or the first week in August"; STC supposes it will be in Stowey (see 1800:111). jSC is "shockingly uncomfortable. London does not suit either of us." He and SC are incompatible, but he is still; "content." He will spend this evening with Charlotte Smith.10 (CL I #317.) 44. Feb 12 STC, Godwin, iMary] Barker!1 have tea at [Charlotte! Smith's. (Godwin (MS diary); CL I #317.) 45. [1800, probably Feb 12 or 13] Lamb writes Thomas Manning: "Coleridge inquires after you pretty often. I wish to be the Pandar to bring you to gether again once before I die." (LL I #59.) 46. Feb 14 STC writes TP from London: (TP has written doubting STC's affection); STC writes to reassure him. Desires TP to be "on the lookout" for a house; STC will "beyond all doubt settle at Stowey...." (but see 1800:111). He must have a house with "a Study out of the noise of Women and children— ." If nohouse is available by midsummer, STC will take lodgings at Minehead or Porlock. SC is very un comfortable. STC has given up writing for MP, "but the Ed itor is importunate against it." Tonight he goes with Stu art to the House of Commons. He was at the House of ®He stays instead with Lamb (see 1800:59). 10(1749-1806)— poetess and novelist (CL I #317 nl, p. 571). 1 UMary Barker was a friend of RS's. (See his letters to her, Atlantic Monthly LXXXIX [1902], 38.) (1800)199 jCoramons debate from 8:00 a.m. Mon to 3:00 a.m. Tues. Hart ley is well. (.CL I #318. See 1800:18. See 1800:50 for TP1s reply.) i 47. Feb 16 Godwin calls on STC; STC and Godwin dine at H[orne] |Tooke's with Burdett, Gawlers, Sharpe, and Wardle. (Godwin | (MS diary).) 48. [1800, Feb 17-5:00 a.m. Feb 16] STC attends the House of Commons debate on the war with France, where he records Pitt's speech for MP. He ; stays up till 5:00 a.m. the next morning, transcribing reports. (CN I #653 and n; MP Feb 27, 1800; EOT II, 293- 306; III 1009-19; I xci; CL I #317, 359; Studies (Blunden land Griggs) 50-52.) 49. [1800,] Feb 18 STC writes RS from London: STC cannot bear RS's going "into a strange country" alone. He was up till 5:00 a.m. this morning transcribing reports for MP (see 1800:48). He will "do no more for Stewart" [sic]." He expects to be very busy in "the next fortnight or so." SC is miserable, Hartley well, save for a cold. (CL I #319.) 50. Feb 22 TP writes STC: TP hopes STC has fulfilled his own and Stuart's purpose before quitting MP. Does STC have some thing better to do? TP would like STC, if possible, to ob tain a house in Stowey. (Poole II, 6. See 1800:46. See 1800:52 for STC's reply.) STC, Godwin have supper at M[ary] Robinson's. (Godwin (MS diary).) 51. Feb 24 Godwin has tea at STC's. (Godwin (MS diary).) 52. [1800, Feb 25] STC writes TP from London: Has received both of TP's ^letters (see 1800:50); the other one is apparently unpre served); STC is homesick for Stowey. Still working for iStuart and MP; is translating three plays of Schillerl2; 12"The P^ccolcmvini, or the First Part of Wallenstein. A Drama in Five Acts,~ahd~The Death of Wallenstein/ A (1000) 200 has been working fourteen hours a day for the last week. ■Hartley is well; SC better; STC "middling." Has heard from; j W , . who is well and happy. STC has "a huge hankering for Alfoxderi." (CL I #320; see 1800:50.) ! I ' 53. [1800, probably Feb] STC writes W: "I grieve that 'The Recluse' sleepis." j (CL I #321.) 54. [1800, c Feb 28; probably just before, perhaps Feb 27] STC writes RS': STC is translating MS plays of Schil- 1 ler; recommends that RS write novels, or translations, or a history of Portugal, if he goes there; but not plays. ISends a poem by Mary Robinson-for inclusion in the anthol ogy ("The Haunted Beach," Annual Anthology, 1800) SC is still "poorly," Hartley well. (CL X #322;) :55. [Probably Feb-Mar, 1800] STC records in his notebook an observation on the dif-; ference between genius and talent, a distinction similar to that between Imagination and Fancy, a key STC idea. (CN I #669 and n. Cf. BL I, 59-60, 153; Friend III, 78-92; TT May 21, 1830.) 56. [1800, probably Feb, before Mar 1] STC sees the Barbaulds in London [two or three times.]: (CL I #324.)13 57. [Mar] [Mar is full of STC having tea with Godwin and Lamb.] (Erdman n, Godwin (MS diary).) 58. [1800, Mar 1] STC writes-Daniel Stuart-: Feels uncomfortable regard-; Tragedy in Five Acts; for the translation of these from the f German STC received fifty pounds from Longman (see CL I #459). Play #3, Wallenstein's Camp, and an "Essay on the Genius of Schiller," promised in the advertisement to' The Piccolomini, never appeared." (CL I #320 n2, p. 574.) ^3Mrs. Anna Letiifia Barbauld (1743-1825), poet and 'miscellaneous writer whom STC had met in Bristol in the ! isummer of 1797. (See 1797:84.) (1800) 201 ;ing his conduct toward Stuart; has been working hard on the Schiller, wanting .money for SC's. transportation to IKemps- 1 ford. Will finish the first play in four-^f ive days. Wish-; es from now on to write for MP free-lance, not on contract. ! SC leaves "tomorrow evening"; STC moves to P.eritonville with Lamb (see 1800:59). Has seen Mr. and Mrs. Barbauld "two or: three times." (CL I #324.) 59. Mar 2 [-early Apr] On Mar 2 SC, Hartley go to Kempsford to spend a month with the Roskillys (.CL I #324 n2, p. 578). STC moves in with Lamb at 36 Chapel St., Pentonville, where he remains till early Apr. (CN I #709n, 717n; CL I #324, 325; see 1800:75.) At night on Mar 2 STC goes to Godwin's; gets "tipsy." (CL I #325.) 60. [1800, Mar 3] STC writes Godwin from Lamb's: Got "tipsy" from the punch last night at Godwin's; apologizes for his talkative ness. (CL I #325.) 61. 11800, Mar 9] Thomas Manning writes Lamb: The story of STC's lie • - . t o the Rev. George Caldwell at Cambridge is untrue. (ML 32. See 1800:38.) 62. [1800, probably Mar, possibly Mar 14, probably before Mar 15 and certainly before Mar 17] [STC, Lamb, dine at Longman the bookseller's. Perhaps; on this occasion] STC and Longman decide on payment of £100 for publication of STC's projected tour of the north of England. (ML 34; CL I #326. See 1800:65, 63.) 63. [1800, Mar 15J STC writes Samuel Purkis from Pentonville: Longman is I to give him £100 for his tour of the north of England (see 1800:62). He will spend two or three days with Purkis be fore leaving town... He thinks SC is better. (CL I #326.)14: 14He probably did not go to be with Purkis. All the evidence seems to suggest that he remained with Lamb right ;until the time of his departure for Grasmere (see 1800:75). (1800)202 164. [1800, probably Mar 16 or 17] J i / | i • ! I Lamb writes Thomas Manning: "I am living in a contin-l |uous feast. Coleridge hais been with me now for nigh three ; weeks, and the more I see of him in the quotidian undress land relaxation of his mind, the more cause I see to love him, and believe him a' very good man, and all those foolishi jimpressions to the contrary fly off like morning slumbers. : He is engaged in translations [Wallens teinj, which I hope will keep him this month to come." STC's solicitation for iLamb's welfare: "He has lugged me to the brink of engaging; to a newspaper....1 1 (LL X #62.) i 1 65. [1800, Mar 17] Thomas Manning writes Lamb: He has heard that Lamb and STC were seen lately in the city, and that they dined ' tpgether "at a Bookseller's in Grace-church Street" (Long man's) . (ML 34. See 1800:62,63.) 66. [1800, c Mar 17] STC writes Daniel Stuart: The possible publication of Lamb in MP. (CL I #327. See 1800:64.) 67. [1800, probably Mar 21] STC writes TP from Pentonville: Received his letter "this night." (There is no published record of this letter. It may have been unpreserved.) STC has "never worked so hard" in- his life; has written "500 blank Verse Lines" (of ! Waileh'stein) . He likes TP' s plan for his residence in Stowey (see 1800:50); will not be there for two months, but! SC will. He can make "500 guineas a year, if, I give up poetry— i.e.~ original Poetry— ."- Stuart has offered him |half shares in MP. and The ' Courier, , but he will not give up |the country for the job.li> wishes he could get W to re take Alfoxden.16 STC is at Lamb's; wishes he were at Stow ey... (CL - I #328.)17.. ISgee JDC 107-10 for a discussion of Stuart's later denial of this offer. 16Mrs. Sandford asks (Poole IX,. 7): "Was it, then, ini ;W's power to-do so? And had Poole's letter to Mrs. St. Al- hyn iPoole I, 240-43] actually produced some effect?" ! -*-7^0 record of TP's answer has been preserved, but he ;seems to have accused STC of making an idol of W. (See 1800:73.) 68. Mar 23 (1800) 203 I i I STC at Pentonville [possibly sees and/or discusses |with Lamb a blind man with a dagger.] Godwin calls on STC j at Lamb's. STC is very thirsty and can find no lemons for j ^lemonade. (CN I #709 and n, 711; Godwin (MS diary).)18 169. [Possibly Mar 23, 1800] I [STC is possibly experiencing emotional perturbation ! connected with the departure of his wife for Bristol and ; the relief he must have felt over that; and the contemplat ed visit to the north, only a fortnight away, with the pos-; sibility of seeing Sarah Hutchinson.] (CN I #712 and n. :The entry is difficult to decipher, but it may lend itself jto this interpretation.) 70. [1800, between Mar 23 and Apr 4 or 5] STC [evidently buys flower seeds for Lamb] (CN I #717 and n; LL I #63.) 71. [1800, on or before Mar 27] STC writes Samuel Purkis [from Pentonville]s He has "taken a House, or rather half a house, at Stowey"; does hot know when, he will go there. (CL I #329.)18 72. Mar 29-31 STC goes to Godwin's Mar 29, stays through the 31st, [may return to Lamb's that evening.]20 (Godwin (MS diary).) 73. Mar 31 STC writes TP [probably from Pentonville]: Housing 18Evidently STC saw Mrs. Robinson the poetess and a good deal of HD during this time also (see CL I #333.) 18,1 Apparently a farm house, which would be shared with the farmer and his wife as to the kitchen." (Poole I, 8.) 20j conjecture that STC may have returned to Lamb's the evening of the 31st because CL I #330 (see 1800:73) was written on that date, and it is unlikely that STC would have wasted any part of an opportunity to talk to Godwin, |even in order to write to TP. I (1800) 204 i '* iarrangements at Stowey.21 "...if I were to live in London another half year, I should be dried up wholly...." (CL I |#3 30. See 1800:67.) 74. [1800, Mar or Aug.] STC enters in his notebook a technical metrical exper iment, in which he displays an awareness of the kinetic muscular element in verse, later described BL II, 51. (CN II #716 and n.) i 75. [1800, early Apr, probably after Mar 31 and before Apr 4 or 5 j ; Apr 6 STC leaves Lamb and travels north to visit W and the Hutchinsons. (CN I #711, 717, 719; CL I #330; LL I #63. See 1800:78.) He arrives Apr 6 (see 1800:79). 76. Apr 1 RS writes STC from Bristol: RS and Edith leave Bris tol next Thurs week; RS does not wish to see STC before he leaves. HD and Charles Danvers in charge of the third An nual Anthology. STC named executor of RS's will. RS's pro jected sojourn in Lisbon; the summer to be spent at Cintra. Hartley a "queer boy." "Coleridge, write often to me." STC's Poems and LB going with RS on his trip. (CS II, 53- 56.) 77. Apr 2 RS writes from Bristol- to. John May: Projected trip to Portugal; STC's editing of Madoc in case of RS's death. (WL 103.) 78. [1800, probably Apr 4 or 5] Lamb writes Thomas Manning: "...Coleridge has left us, to go into the north, on a visit to his god Wordsworth"; the consequent withering of Lamb's prospects of employment- with MP. (LL I #63.)22 2^STC was finally unable to content himself again with Stowey and Poole, when W was moving north. (See 1800:111.) 22While in London, STC finished his translation of Wallenstein, which was ready for the printer on Apr 22. (LL I #63n.) (1800) 205 1 79. Apr 6 (-May 4) STC arrives at Grasmere from London Apr 6, on his Ifirst visit to the W's after they have settled at Dove Cot tage. (He remains until May 4.) (CN I #719 and h; LL I #63; CL I #333; EY #129; Moorman I, 47 5.)23 80. [Probably 1800, Apr] STC [probably places some of SH's hai? in his pocket.] (CN I #718; cf. "The Keepsake": PW I, 346; GCL 70.)24 :81. [Probably between Apr 6 and Oct 10, 1800, probably ;June-July, probably c June 29] STC records a note about a bell that is heard through a mist in Langdale vale. (CN I #720 and n, 753; cf. "Christabel" II, 11. 332-61: PW I, 227; GCL 68.) 82. [Probably 1800, between Apr 6 and May 4] [STC perhaps visits the Grasmere churchyard and no tices the name Mable partially obliterated on one of the tombstones.] (CN I #722.) 83. [Possibly 1800, between Apr 6 and May 4] [Possibly during the time of his visit to Grasmere, STC travels briefly north, noticing, probably on his way back, a sign advertising the ale of John Standley, on the road between Keswick and Wytheburn.] (CN I #723.)25 84. Apr [10] STC writes RS from Grasmere: RS's trip to Lisbon. STC moves to Bristol "in a few days" (but see 1800:111); has been "in excessive Perplexity of mind lately on sundry subjects," and has overworked himself. W is publishing a jsecond edition of LB, meditates a novel; so does STC. Will rewrite Osorio. Affedtionate toward RS, though he "cannot 2^During this visit he decides to settle at Keswick if he is unable to get a suitable house at Stowey (see CL I #333), and W decides to reprint LB in a two-vol edition, the second vol to consist of hew poems (see 1800:84). 24Miss Coburn says it is no longer there. (CN I #718n.) j 2^There is no record of this trip, except this note book . entry that seems to suggest it. j (1800) 206 ! j wholly approve" bjt; RS's "Anthologizing!1: his objections | •are "of a moral nature." He has "ample materials for a j jmost interesting Historical and Metaphysical Essay on Lit- i . ierary Forgery.*' (CL I #331; GCL 66.) 26 85. [1800,] Apr 11 STC is at the W's. (EY #129.) DW writes to Richard Wordsworth: STC presently at ;Dove Cottage. STC has desired some things to be sent to [Richard's chambers; requests Richard to forward them to Grasmere. (EY #129.) 86. [Probably 1800, Apr 16 or 17] Lamb writes STC: Encloses Lamb's play (John Wood- vilie) , to be presented to W and DW. Problems with Sarah [Wesley and Miss Ben jay, who are in pursuit of STC27; re quest for some lines from "Christabe1"; recent visit from Godwin, who spoke of STC. (LL I #65. See GCL 68.) 87. Apr 21 STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Grasmere: STC will be in London "the beginning of next week" (week of Apr 27). (CL I #332.)28 88. May 1 RS writes to STC from Lisbon: RS's illness on the voyage; mistaken "attack" by a wrongly identified ship from •Guernsey. RS's impressions of Lisbon; getting-settled. The prpgress of Thalaba; projected work on Madoc. Request - for a copy of "Christabel" and "The Three Graves." (CL II, 61-65. See GCL 68,29.). [89. May 4 (-between May.7 and 21) STC leaves Grasmere and the W's on May 4. He intends [to go to London to see Daniel Stuart (see 1800:87), but in 28"Yet in RS's Annual Anthology of that year STC pub- | lished 'Something Childish, But Very Natural' (PW I, 313] , ['Home-Sick' [PW I, .314.], and 'The British Stripling's War [Song' [PW I, 317-18] , all three silently adapted from Ger man models." (DA 59.) 27Sarah is the daughter of Charles Wesley (1760-1828);[ ;"Miss Benjay" is Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger (1778-1827). 28He does not go till May 4 (see 1800:89). r (1800) 207 j s ! Kendal he receives letters that require him to go to Stowey i instead (see 1800:111). He does go to Bristol first, how- ! 'ever, where he remains till [sometime between May 7 and ! May 21J, when he returns to Stowey. (GN I #719 and n; EY |#129; CL I #333.) He takes with him to Bristol copies of several of W's poems intended to be published under W's own name as the second vol of LB in the hew edition. (See CL Ii #336 headnote). In Bristol he sees much of HD, [who looks over the proof sheets of W's poems and agrees to see the jnew edition through the press]. (Cottle:Rec II, 46-68; CL I #333; GCL 66.) While in Bristol he also [probably nego tiates with Biggs and Cottle to print LB, and with Longman ito publish it], (EY #133 and n6, 150.) 90. May 7 In Bristol STC is [perhaps staying with Charles Dan vers, a friend of RS's.] (CN I #728 and n.) [STC possibly talks with, or hears, the Rev. J. P. Estlin.] (CN I #729.) 91. [1800, between May 7 and 21, possibly May 20] (-c June i2) STC leaves Bristol and returns to Stowey, with SC and Hartley. (CN I #729, 738 and n; CL I #333.) (He remains at Stowey until June 12, when he goes to Bristol and Gras mere; see 1800:111.) 92. May 14 (-June 7) ' W, JW leave Grasmere May 14 to visit the Hutchinsons at Gallow Hill. (They return June 7.) DW is left alone at jGrasmere. (Moorman I, 476.) 93. [May] 18 DW, at Grasmere, receives a letter from STC, [who is probably still in Bristol.] (DWJ I, 39.) |94.. [1800, May 20] STC, [probably at Stowey], receives a letter from RS, ■who is in Lisbon: RS is planning a history of Portugal, which will be translated into Portugese. (CL I #333.) 1 95. May 21 (-c June ;12) i STC is certainly at Stowey, staying with TP, on May 21: • (CL I #333.) j I From Stowey he writes Godwin: Received Godwin's letter 'this morning (unpreserved). The Schiller assignment has j . . . . . . . . ~ . . ' . . . . . . . ' ” ( 1 8 0 0 ) 2 0 8 j ! depressed him. He "left Wordsworth on the 4th of this I month...." Has decided to settle at Keswick "if I cannot I procure a suitable house at Stowey... ." Hartley sends his ■ ! •love to Mary.29 In Bristol STC was "much with Davy— almost | all day." HD will be with him in the fall if he settles at I Keswick.30 Received yesterday a letter from RS (see jl800 s 94) . (CL I #333.) ! | 96. [May 25] DW receives a letter from STC (unpreserved). (DWJ I, 41.) ! 97. May 26 i j DW writes a letter to STC (unpreserved). (DWJ I, I 41-) 98. May [27] DW meets the mailman at Ambleside; he has a letter for STC (see 1800:123). She was expecting one from W— nothing. (See 1800:92.) (DWJ I, 42.) 99. 1800, June RS writes Charles Danvers from Lisbon: Has not yet heard from STC since his arrival in Portugal. (WL 106.) 100. June 1 DW, at Grasmere, receives a letter from STC [from I Stowey], (DWJ I, 43. The letter is apparently unpre served .) 101. June 2 I DW inquires about lodgings for STC at Ambleside, I [probably from Mrs. Jackson], owner of Greta Hall, Keswick.^ |She writes to STC (unpreserved). (DWJ I, 44.) 102. [June 2] STC, at or near Stowey, sees two drunken men, arm in j arm, the leader believing he is not drunk. (CN I #737 and in.) 29Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-1851), Shelley's |second wife. i . . . . . _ ?®There is no record of an HD visit to Keswick. i (1800) 209 i 3.0.3. 11800, c June 2] ! j STC records an observation in opposition to Adam I iSmith's position on the superiority of rustics. (CN I ;#735 and n, 737. Cf. BL II, 38-41 (ch.: XVII) ; W, "Essay !Supplementary to the Preface," LB 1800.) 104. [1800, June 3] STC writes HD: Requests a little of his "acid" for helping to restore the use of limbs affected by rheumatism (see CL I #333). (CL I #334.) DW mails her letter [to STC.] (DWJ I, 44. See 1800: 101. ) 105. [1800, June 4] TW writes from Bridgewater to TP, STC at Stowey: TW's return from the West Indies; the lack of benefit to his health. He is presently heading for Cote House; apol ogizes for not stopping at Stowey. (Litchfield 93-94.) 106. [June 5] DW writes an answer to STC. (DWJ I, 45.) 107. [June 6] DW mails her letter to STC at Ambleside (see 1800: 106). (DWJ I, 45.) 108. [1800, c June 7J STC writes HD from TP's at Stowey: Did HD receive the June 3 letter (see 1800:104)? STC has "now finally de termined on the North."Thinking of translating Blumen- bach' s Beytrage zur Naturge's'chi'chte (1790). Intends to read Spinoza and Leibnitz after he settles in Keswick. (CL I #334.) ,109. [June 7] W, JW return from their visit to the Hutchinsons (see 1800:92). DW, IW] write to STC. (DWJ I, 46; Moorman I, 476.)...... .. . . .. . . . . . .j.... .. .. .. . . 3^DW has evidently received a letter from STC. Both letters are unpreserved, but their correspondence no doubt !concerns STC's occupancy of Greta Hall. (See 1800:108.) j (1800) 210 | IllO.. June 10 ! i J W, DW hunt lodgings for STC at Ambleside, [from Mrv | iJackson (see 1800:101)]. (DWJ I, .47.) 111. June 12 (-29) ; STC leaves Stowey with SC and Hartley June 12 for the move through Bristol and Liverpool to Grasmere, where they ; arrive June 29. They arrive Bristol on the 12th. STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Bristol on June 12: He has been prevented from going to London during the last | month. TW's recent letter (see 1800:105), and health. STC; has been house hunting in Porlock; finding nothing, he is going to move north. Old Mrs. Poole seems to be dying. STC, family leave Bristol "tomorrow" (June 13). (CN I #738 land n; CL I #335.)’2 112. [Possibly June 13-15, 1800] STC is given a recipe for combatting constipation, [possibly at Bristol by Dr. Beddoes, or possibly at Liver pool, by Dr. Crompton or Dr. Currie.] (CN I #739 and n.) [Probably on his trip from Stowey to Grasmere,] STC encounters a blacksmith, whom he describes in his notebook. (CN I #740.) 113. [1800, c June 15] STC leaves Bristol [around June 15] to begin the 204 miles to Liverpool. On the way he [possibly visits Thel- wall on Llyswen Farm near Built. He possibly spends the.. night of the 15th at Tewkesbury.] (CN I #738n; CL I #340.); 114. [Probably 1800, June 15-18] STC and family pass through Eastham erirrouteffrom Stowey to Liverpool. STC is impressed with the church steeple. (CL I #741 and n; Poole II, 203.) •^^Moorman I, 487 states that STC "became intimate" ■with HD during this June 1800 stay in Bristol; that he "gave Davy many of the MSS of W's most recent poemis, and either then or soon after his arrival in Grasmere, pre vailed on Davy to see the new edition through the press at Ithat end" (see 1800:129,135,138,141). STC's stay of June : 12-15 in Bristol hardly seems long enough for STC to have jbecome "intimate" with HD during that time; probably Mrs. ;Moorman's statement refers to STC's longer stay in Bristol ■in May (see 1800:89). I (1800) 211 i ' * • i115. 11800, possibly June 16] ! , ■! STC and family pass through Worcester, Kidderminster,: IBridgeriorth, Colebrook Dale; spend the night at Shrewsbury. ; (CL I #340.) :116. [June 17] Walking out to Rydal*, W, DW find there a letter for STC. (They are expecting him shortly.) (DWJ I, 49.) 117. [1800, June 17 (-19?)] STC and family arrive Chester [possibly June 17]; re-! imain till [possibly June 19, when they leave for Liverpool ! (see 1800:118)]. (CL I #340.) 118. [1800, probably June 18 or 19 (-June 27 or 28)] # 1 STC and family arrive Liverpool, stay over a week ;with the Cromptons. While there, STC meets William Roscoe,, the historian, is impressed with his story of Fuseli. (CN I #742 and n; CL X #340.) 119. [Probably 1800, June, between June 18 or 19 and 27 orl 28] In Liverpool, [probably at the Cromptons',] STC meets William Rathbone, a merchant active with Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson in the anti-slavery movement. (CN I #747 and n; CL I #340.) 120. [June 19] W, DW are expecting STC, who does not arrive. (DWJ If 49.) 121. June 22 DW records "no letters— no news of Coleridge." (DWJ I, 50.) 122. [1800, c June 27 or 28]; June 29 STC and family leave Liverpool for Grasmere, arriving June 29. (CN I #738n.) •123. [June 29 (-c July 13); July 23,24] STC, ill with a cold caught in Liverpool, arrives at jGrasmere with SC, Hartley on June 29. STC is ill with his ! cold and resultant rheumatic fever till [c July 13] (see f - -.... ... ■.. (1'800).212 i | 1800:128). STC stays at Grasmere till [July 23], SC and j jHartley till [July 24J , waiting for Greta Hall to be ready ! jfor occupancy. (DWJ X, .51; CN I #749; see 1800:133,134.)^3 j iWhile at Grasmere, STC and DW transcribe W's poems for the ; printers. (CL I #336 headnote. See especially for exteri- i sive Griggs comment on the strangeness of STC's preoccupa- ' jtion with W at this time, when he should have been working i ion his own obligations for the Wedgwoods and Daniel Stuart, i IFor Moorman's explanation of STC's extensive assistance of iW, see I, 488-89.) 124. [Probably between June 29 and July 20, 1800] STC, during his stay at Grasmere, visits Dungeon Gill IForce, a falls in Langdale. (CN I #753 and n.) STC [evidently talks with a peasant woman at Gras mere about the stars], (CN I #756 and n.) 125. July 12 SH writes to John Monkhouse from Gallow Hill. (SHL #1.) 126. [1800, mid-July] STC writes Biggs and Cottle [from Grasmere] : In structions concerning the publication of LB second edition— the order of the poems. Be careful to print the copy that contains "The Nightingale" (GCL 45) , not the one with "Lewti" .(GCL 3 6).34 Alterations in "The Foster Mother's Tale," "The Dungeon," and "The Nightingale" (GCL 23). (CL I #336.)...... .... k . Knight says (quoted DWJ 51), "The dates here given are confusing. STC says he was ill at Grasmere, and ; stayed a fortnight [1800:142], In a letter to Tom Poole he says he arrived at Keswick on July 24, which was a Thurs day" [see 1800:134], STC's remark in the letter to Purkis must be a slip? the preponderance of the evidence indicates' that STC, SC and Hartley all arrived at Keswick on July 24. ! ■^"It was at first intended to include 'Lewti' in the 1798 LB and a few copies containing that poem were printed. Later 'Lewti' was cancelled and 'The Nightingale' substituted. See Wise, Bibliography, 211." (CL I #336 nl, ; p. 593.) STC wants Cottle to be sure that the proper ver- i ision is used. (1800) 213 1127. 11800, mid-JulyJ STC again writes Biggs and Cottle [from Grasmere]: Further printing instructions for LB: Print "Love" (GCL 62) in place'of "The Convict." Revisions of AM (GCL 35). (CL I #337.)35 |128. July 15 STC writes Daniel Stuart from Grasmere: He has been dll since his arrival at Grasmere until the last few days (see 1800:123) . W's health will not allow him to write for ;MP. The second edition of LB "is now printing" (GCL 66). STC's quarrel with Sheridan over Osorio. (CL I #338; GCL 23.) ;129. July 16 STC writes HD from Grasmere: He has been continually ill since arrival at Grasmere (see 1800:123). Expects to move into Greta Hall on the 22nd (see 1800:134). "I would that I could wrap up the view from my House in a pill of opium and send it to you...." Will soon be ready to "at tack chemistry, like a Shark— ." Wants a synopsis of HD's metaphysical opinions. Describes in detail a disease. Sheridan has sent to him again about Osorio (see GCL 23). Will HD look over the proof sheets of LB? (CL I #339; GCL ; 66. ) 130. [1800, July 13J [STC, SC, W, DWJ have a light picnic on the island in Grasmere Lake. (DWJ I, 51; Moorman I, 477-78.) 131. [1800, July 19] [STC is possibly in Keswick on this day]; CL I #338, 339 are stamped from there. 132. July 20 STC, W, DW and the Simpsons have a picnic in Bain- iriggs. STC observes the mountains through the smoke of their bonfire. (CN I #758 and n; CL I #342; DWJ I, 51.) il33. [1800, July 23J STC [probably leaves Grasmere for Keswick, leaving SC 35p>0r W's and Lamb's respective criticisms of this version of AM, see CL I #337 nl, p. 602 and LL I #96. r- .... ..........-............................ (1800) 214 i ! 1 ’ ; Sand Hartley to come the next day; possibly spends the nightj ieri route at Jakesson's, arrives Keswick probably the next i day. En route to Jakesson's, he converses with a peasant woman.J (CN I #763 and h; CL I #340; EY #135.) 134. [1800, July 24] ! [STC, SC and Hartley probably arrive Keswick on July 24.] (CN I #762n; CL I #340; EY #135.) j STC writes TP from Keswick; His illness; his trip north; his move into Greta Hall on this day; the weakness of his eyes since his illness. Sheridan is again communi cating about Osorio. (CN I #762n; CL I #340; EY #135.) STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Keswick; His arrival at Grasmere June 29 (see 1800;123); his illness; his enjoy ment of the area around Keswick. Dejection at leaving TP and Stowey; difficulties between SC and TP's relatives, es pecially his sister-in-law; TP's desire to travel; descrip-j tion of Keswick. Sheridan's offer regarding Osorio. (CL I #341; GCL 23.) 135. July 25 STC, now moved into Greta Hall at Keswick, observes the wind playing around the top of a young poplar tree. (CN I #763 and n.) STC writes HD in the evening; HD's proofreading work on W's poems (see 1800:89); Godwin in Ireland; Hartley a delightful child. (CL I #342.) STC writes James Tobin: The Keswick area. W "toler ably well." STC "left Wordsworth yesterday" (but see 1800: 133). Invites Tobin for a visit; HD expected in the first week of Sept "at the farthest.Tobin to bring Bartram'si Travels when he comes. (See CL I. #343 nl, p. -613 for Griggs1 discussion of STC's copy of the Travels, given to SH Dec 19, 1801.) Libraries around Keswick; Hartley's ac tivities. (CL I #343.) STC observes and records bright stars in the sky and yet a gloomy twilight over the mountains. (CN I #766 and n.) 136. [Probably 1800, July 25] STC records a note on competitors for public praise which may be background for the preface to the second edi tion of LB. (CN I #764 and n; EY #131; CL I #449,444; GCL i 66. ) STC, [probably in Keswick], visits a book-seller1s jshop and asks for a volume of Aristotle. SC asks if 36iphere is no record of this pro j ected visit. ............................. ' (1800) 215 - ; ■ j Aristotle were not a midwife. (CN I #765 and n.) 13.7. [Probably 1800, between July 25 and Aug 1] ISTC apparently walks to lakes Rydal and Grasmere, j notices and] records the reflection of the Silver How in j both lakes. The same reflection is later noticed by DW j i(DWJ Oct 5, 1800). (CN I #769 and n.) j i j 138. [July 28] ! . , I W, DW receive a short letter from STC, enclosing one I from HD about LB: Biggs is ready to print the second vol ! of LB. (DWJ I, .52; EY #135. See 1800:136; GCL 66.) ; 139. [Possibly 1800, July 28] j Lamb writes STC: Lamb's new lodgings at John Matthew Gutch's in Chancery Lane; rememberances to SC and Hartley; | continued request for lines from "Christabel." (LL I #71.) ; 140. [1800, July] Lamb writes Robert Lloyd: "Coleridge is settled at ; Keswick, so that the probability is that he will be once again united with your Brother." (LL I #7 2.)37 141. [1800,] July [29] W writes HD: The LB MS left by STC with HD (see 1800:89): requests that HD look over the proof sheets. STC left Grasmere "last Wed" (July 23), SC and Hartley on Thurs (see 1800:133,134), for Greta Hall. STC note re ceived yesterday: Biggs and the soon printing of LB. (EY #135; GCL 66.) ; 142. July 29 STC writes Samuel Purkis: The Keswick area; STC's ' illness; arrival at Keswick last week (see 1800:134); a j fortnight spent at Grasmere (but see 1800:123 and n,.. 133)'; I with Roscoe in Liverpool. SC and Hartley well; SC expec ting early in Sept; sorry to leave Stowey and TP. (CL I #344.) | 143. lJuly 31 (-probably Aug 2)J ..... STC goes to Dove Cottage in the afternoon; brings vol; ^Charles and Sophia Lloyd had moved to Old Brathay, i near Ambleside. ; (1800) 216 |2 of RS's Annual Anthology. Goes swimming and sailing with jW, DW; all "read poems on the water." (DiWJ I,; 5 3. ’ ) 38 [STC jprobably remains at Grasmere till Aug 2 (see 1800:146).] i' 144. Aug 1 STC, [who has apparently spent the night at Gras mere,] goes down to the lake with W. Goes' with W, DW to iMary Point (see DWJM 32, n3) ; they read W's poemis aloud. Later drink tea in the orchard with the Simpsons (see DWJ ! Appendix I, 437). (DWJ I, 53; CN I #768.) 145. [1800, c Aug 1] STC writes Biggs and Cottle: Changes in the order of the entries in LB. (CL I #345; GCL 66.) [STC probably spends the night at Dove Cottage.] (See 1800:146.) 146. Aug 2 [-Aug 6,7, or 8] STC returns to Keswick; W goes with him. [W remains till Aug 6,7, or 8.] During this stay of W with STC, STC prepares the third MS sheet of poems for vol II of LB (see CL I #346 headnote; GCL 66.) (DWJ I, .53; see 1800:152.) 147. [1800, early Aug, probably after Aug 2] [STC, W, perhaps visit the circle of standing stones inear Keswick.] (CN I #770 and n.) : 14.8. [Aug 4J DW pulls."a large basket of peas"; sends it to Kes- iwick "by a returned chaise"— [probably to STC]. (DWJ I, 54.) 149. [1800, c Aug 4J STC writes to Biggs and Cottle from Keswick: Will I they send the proof sheets of LB to HD? (CL I #346.) 150. [1800, Aug] ; STC observes and records the mountains seen from Greta Hall. (CN I #778 and n.) 38Stc, DW are engaged during this time in transcrib- ; jing W's poems for the printer: "The Brothers," "Strange iFit’ s of Passion," "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways," and "A Slumber Did my Spirit SealU" (CL I #345 n4, p. 616.) ; ! ..... ‘...... "... .."..‘..... "..■ "..............(1800) "217 ! ■ ' ‘ 151. Aug 6 I ! Lamb writes STC: Lamb's delivery, of several of STC's books to Longman and Company; also some personal items, !"sundry papers and poems...," and a.box of STC's letters. Approval of "Lewti" (PW I, 253; GCL 36); disapproval of | being called "gentle-hearted" in "This Lime-Tree Bower" (PW I ■I, 178; GCL 30) . (LL I #75.) j ;152. [1800, Aug 6,7, or 8; (-Aug 8)] [W evidently returns to Grasmere either Aug 6 or 7 or| iearly on the 8th.] He remains till Aug 8, when he returns to Keswick with DW. (CN I #784 and n; see also DWJ Aug 8 ■entry, CL I #346 headnote; see 1800:157.)39 153. Aug 7 DW sends a mattress to Keswick— [probably to STC]. (DWJ I, 54.) 1154. [Aug 1800, probably either Aug 7 or 8 or after Aug 17] STC makes a tour up Saddleback, [apparently alone, probably either Aug 7 or 8, after W returns to Grasmere, or after Aug 17, when W, DW leave after their stay of Aug 8^17 j (see 1800:157)]. (CN I #784 and n.) ■155. Aug 8 SH is still at Gallow Hill (see 1800:125). She writes to John Monkhouse from there. (SHL #2.) ;156. [1800, probably Aug 8 or 9] Lamb writes Thomas Manning: "Coleridge is settled :with his wife (with a child in her guts) and the young phi losopher at Keswick with the Wordsworths"; the 1800 LB— "causes no little excitement in the literary world." (LL I #76; GCL 66.) •^Griggs says definitely that W returned to Grasmere ; Aug 6 (CL I #346 headnote), but all I can determine is that: |he and DW went to Keswick Aug 8, and that STC may have made* a tour up Saddleback alone before their return (see 1800: ! 154). W therefore might have left Keswick the 6th or 7th; |he might also have left the 8th and returned the same day, j jalthough this is perhaps unlikely. But DW does not mention! his return in her journal on any of those days. j f (1800) 218 ; I V ! 1157. (Aug 8 (.-Aug 17) J j W, DW arrive at STC's. 11:00 a.m. [Aug 8] , stay till jAug 17 (see 1800:168). During their stay, DW works on ! | transcribing MS sheets 5 and 6 for vol II of LB (CL I #347 ; headnote). W notes on the address page of sheet #5 that "the preface is not yet ready...." (DWJ I, 54-55; GCL 66.) 158. [Aug 9] STC walks with DW in the Windy Brow woods (see DWJ jnl, p. 55). (DWJ I, 55.) 159. [Aug 10] STC, SC go to church. (DWJ I, 55.)40 i STC receives two letters from TP. (CL I #348.) (The letters are unpreserved.) :160. [Aug 11] [W,] DW walk with STC to Windy Brow. (DWJ I, 55.) 161. Aug 13 The Windy Brow Seat, later the subject of a poem sent to MP and published Oct 21, 1800— written by W and [appar ently revised by STCJ (de S61incourt, WPW I, 301-02, 272) — was built on Aug 13 by DW, [W,] and [STC]. (CN I #830 and n; DWJ X, 55; MP Oct 21, 1800; 1800:231.) 162. [1800, c Aug 13] STC writes Biggs and Cottle: The motto for LB. (CL I #347.) 163. Aug 14 STC writes TP from Keswick: Received two letters from TP four days ago (see 1800:159). The Kesiwick area; SC expecting in the first week of Sept; everyone well. "The two Volumes of the Lyrical Ballads will appear in about a fortnight or three weeks— " (GCL 66).41 An experience of STC's on the top of Skiddaw. (CL X #348. See 1800:164 for 40"One of the few occasions," says EKC 134, "on which; this is recorded of him." i ■ , 41"Actually the second edition of Lyrical Ballads did; ;not come out until Jan. 1801, though 1800 appears on the jtitle page." (CL I #348 n2, p. 618.) (1800) 219 | TP's reply.) ! ' Lamb writes STC: Discussion of "Lime-Tree Bower," j |"Ode to Georgians," and "Lewti" (PW I, 178, 335, 253; GCL 30, 64, 36); the pens that will be sent on Sat. (LL I #78.) 164. [1800, shortly after Aug 14, possibly Aug 16] TP writes STC: The scarcity of grain, rising prices;■ ; the projected publication of TP'S essay on the subject in . ! IMP. (Poole II, 11-14. See 1800:163. See 1800:222 for STC's reply.) 165. [Aug 15] [STC, W] walk with DW [and Hartley] to Water End— feast on gooseberries at Silver Hill. (DWJ I, 55; DWJM 34, n3.) 166. [1800, c Aug 15-Aug 31]; Oct 4 [Probably during these last two weeks of Aug,] STC is writing Part II of "Christabel," which [is perhaps included! in the Aug 31 reading to the W's (see 1800:180). It is certainly completed by Oct 4 (see 1800:213). W decides after all not to include it in LB. (CN I #798n; DWJ Aug 31, 1800; CL I #362; EKC 134; CL I #336 headnote; GCL 68.) , 167. [Aug 16] DW walks with STC, "intending to gather raspberries " (DWJ I, 55.) 168. Aug 17 Looking from Greta Hall, STC sees the sunrise on Windy Brow, lighting only the middle cone of the five cones that rise before the house. (CN I #781.) W, DW return to Grasmere. DW records, "William read ius 'The Seven Sisters' on a stone." [STC thus possibly goes with them at least part way.] (DWJ I, 55.) 169. [1800,3 Aug 22 STC notices [at Keswick] that the sun sets "volcan ically" on this night, and the wind blows with "insatiable fury." (CN I #781.) 170. Aug 23 SH is still at Gallow Hill (see 1800:155): She writes :John Monkhouse from there. (SHL #3.) f (1800) 220 i - ! j171. 11800,] Aug 24 . | STC walks with SC and Hartley to Latterrigg; they j watch the sunset on Walla Crag and Torrent Crag. STC ob serves the variety of shapes and colors in the sky. (CN I ; #781.) 1172. [1800,] Aug 25 From Greta Hall, STC observes and describes vividly the sunset over Whinlatter, Walla and Wanthwaite Crags. (CN I #782, 783 and ns.) 173. Aug 26 Lamb writes STC; Enclosure--"Helen Repentant too Late," by Mary Lamb. Godwin's return from Ireland; Lamb's- desire to see W's Borderers; Cottle's epic (Alfred,- an' Epic Poem) . (LL I #80.1 174. [1800,] Aug [26] On a day of clouds and. threatening showers, STC visits the village of Applethwaite. (CN I #788 and n.) 175. [1800,] Aug [27] STC observes and describes the early light of morning on Skiddaw, Wanthwaite and Walla Crag. The day remains cloudy and drizzly. [Probably climbs Skiddaw, from where he observes "the lake," possibly Bassenthwaite, or Derwent Water.] (CN I #789 and n, 790.) 176. [1800,] Aug [28] [STC evidently climbs Skiddaw again on this day; at noon observes from its height the lake through the mist. ^Evidently back at Greta Hall,] he observes the sunset at night; at midnight sees and hears a cloud of small gnats and a spider at his window. Records in his notebook lines Ipossibly written this day], published variatim PW I, 345 as "Apologia Pro Vita Sua" (GCL 69). (CN I #791.) 177. [Possibly as early as Aug or Sept 1800, certainly be fore Sept 17, 1802] STC writes "The Keepsake." (PW I, 345-46; GCL 70.) :178. [1800,] Aug [29] STC leaves Greta Hall for Saddleback Tarn, where he sees the 40-foothigh falls. [Apparently spends the night ■ (1800) 221 iwith Isaac Todd at Grisedale, where he hears the story of llsaac Ritson and the theft of the Grisedale Chapel bell.J (CN I #792, 793, 797n.) 179. [1800,J Aug [30] STC leaves Isaac Todd's at Grisedale in the morning land proceeds back to Keswick, via Bowscale village, the jRiver Caldew, Drycombe Beck, Bowscale Tarn, Bannerdale, and jthe White Horse Inn at Scales. (CN I #797 and n, 793.) 180. Aug 31 [-Sept 3] STC walks over Helvellyn to Grasmere and the W's, ^carrying in his pocket all or part of "Christabel," the second part [either complete at this time or in the pro cess of completion], (CN I #798 and n; CL I #362; EKC 134; GCL 68.) He arrives at the W's 11:00 p.m. W has gone ito bed; STC, DW talk till 3:30 a.m. STC reads part of "Christabel" [probably Part I, possibly Part II, CN I #798 n; DWJ I, 58-60]. They talk about the mountains, Losh's opinion of RS (on Losh, see DWJM 37, nl). (STC stays at jGrasmere \mtil [probably Sept 3] ; see 1800:185. ) ^2 [Pro bably it is during this time that W, STC have their conver sation about the LB Preface in which STC convinces W to write it. He is doing so by Sept 13 (see 1800:193). (LY II #1244, 1565; Barron Field MS I, 111; Moorman I, 492; DWJ I, 61.) 181. [Probably Aug or early Sept, or possibly as late a c Oct 9] STC records an observation on poetry in which he in cludes the phrase "the recalling of passion in tranquil lity," reminiscent of W's famous phrase in the preface to LB (1800). (CN I #787 and n; CL I #356,444,449,464; BL II: "On Poesy-or Art"; .DWJ Sept 13-30, 1800; GCL 66.)43 42dw»s dates are wrong at this point from Thurs Aug 27-Mon Sept 1. Thurs was the 28th, Fri the 29th, Sat the 30th, Sun the 31st. (See DWJM 36, n2.) 43k. Coburn conjectures that the notation may have been made in Aug-early Sept 1800, when STC was still think ing of writing the 1800 preface, or perhaps as late as c Oct 9, when he still had the "Essay on Poetry" in his mind. 'There may also be an- interesting, connection, through Schel- ling' s Ober das VerhSltniss der bilderideri Kiin'ste zu: der Na- tur, with l ( On Poesy or Art" in BL II. ! ■ " ' ' ' ~ (1800) 222 I . ' I 182. [1800, Sept] | William Godwin writes STC from Dublin: His exper- ! lienees in Ireland, especially with Curran.44 (Godwin ! I (Paul) II, 4-6. See 1800:186 for STC's reply.) i ! 183. Sept 1 | | At Grasmere, STC, W, DW walk in the wood by the lake, ' where STC notices thistle and dandelion beards skimming the j jtop of the lake. W reads "Joanna" and "The Fir grove" to jSTC (see DWJ I, 58 n2 on the "Firgrove") . W, STC go swim ming. After dinner, STC discovers a rock-seat in the or chard . STC, evidently unwell, is "obliged to go to bed |after tea." STC eats a mutton chop in bed, broiled for him; by DW. Chats with DW and John till near midnight. Spends jthe night at Grasmere. (DWJ I, 58; CN I #799 and n.) il84. [Sept] 2 STC, W, JW go to Stockle Tarn in the morning (on the barn, see DWJM 37 n3) . Arrive home 6:00 p.m. for supper. jSTC walks with W, DW up the lane by the Grasmere Church, Ithen lingers with DW in the garden, while W goes to bed. iSpends the night at Grasmere. (DWJ I, 58; CN I #800 and In.) 185. Sept 3 [-Sept 23] STC, W, JW go walking with Mr. Simpson on Helvellyn. W, JW return 10:00 p.m. [STC has evidently left them, re turning to Keswick, where he probably remains till Sept 23; see 1800:203.] (DWJ I, 59; CN I #801,802n.)45 186. [1800, Sept 8] ; STC writes Godwin from Keswick: The area around Kes-; wick; the books available to STC. On lawyers and the law; IJohri Philpot Curran. C. Lloyd has, taken a house four milesi 'from W at Grasmere (see 1800:140 and n) . "W is publishing a second Volume of the LB..." (GCL 66) . Hartley well, SC j iexpecting in "7 or 8 days." Wishes Godwin would look for aj house for himself near Keswick. (CL I #349. See 1800: I 182.) ■ : 44John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), Irish judge. 45Tj lere no further mention of STC till Oct 4, and ; jtheri he is coming to be with them again. ; ................ ............ ~ .....' (1800) 223 1 I ! |187. 11800J Sept 9 j I STC goes walking, exploring some of the mountains di- | Irectly in front of the windows of Greta Hall. (CN I #804 j and n.) j 1188. Sept 10 i : ‘ i W, JW, John Marshall go on horseback from Grasmere to j Keswick. They drink tea and sup at STC's, [possibly spend ! the night] (DWJ I, 60; EY #140). j DW writes Mrs. John Marshalls W, JW, John Marshall expected at STC's today. STC's recent visit of "a month" j (June 29-July 23, see 1800:123); W, DW's visit of "a week" j at STC's since his arrival at Keswick (Aug 8*17, see 1800: 157). (EY #140. The letter is completed [Sept 12]. See i 1800:191.)46 j 189. {1800, Sept 11] I [W, John Marshall, JW possibly leave Keswick] for Buttermere. W becomes ill, leaves the party at Borrowdale j and returns home. JW, John Marshall proceed to Buttermere. (EY #140? DWJ I, 60.) 190. Sept 12 STC walks on Grisedale Pike. (CN I #805 and n.) I 191. [1800, Sept 12] DW continues her letter to Mrs. Marshall begun Sept ! 10 (see 1800:188): W, JW, John Marshall drank tea and supped at STC's on Wed (Sept 10). On Thurs W, ill, re turned home (see 1800:189). JW, John.Marshall, expected to part at Keswick tomorrow. W, DW expect SH "in the j spring" for three-four months (see EY #140). . j 192. [1800, Sept 13] [JW and John Marshall may part company at Keswick, JWj on his way home to Grasmere. There is no record that they j see STC again.] (EY #140.) 46jane Marshall— "Born 2 Mar. 1771; died 25 Jan. 1847; sixth daughter of William Pollard (1718-13 Mar., | 1798) , of Halifax, woolrmerchant, and his wife Anne Leach j (1729-1808). The Pollards' house was in Corn Market." Jane married John Marshall (1765-1845), a linen-manufac- i turer of Leeds, on Aug 5/ 1795. Jane and DW had been closej friends since well before Jane's marriage. (EY #50 n3.) j f ........... ..... ... ' "" ' ..... (1800).224 ! ' * 193. Sept 13 [-probably Sept 30] j i I ! W is writing the 1800 LB Preface on Sept 13. (The j Preface is completed probably Sept 30. See 1800:180; CL I j #354; DWJ I, 62; GCL 66.) (DWJ I, 61.) 194. Sept 14 ; Derwent Coleridge is born at 10:30 p.m.; STC specu lates on naming him "Bracy." (CN I #806.) ; . i 195. [1800, before Sept 15] | [Sometime before Sept 15 STC sends to the printers iall or a portion of Part I of "Christabel" (see EY #141).] ’(CL I #351 nl, p.623; GCL 43.) 196. [1800,3 Sept 15 W writes Biggs and Cottle: Request to print the poems he is now enclosing ("The Pet Lamb," "The Fly," "The jChildless Father") before "Christabel" if the printing of j "Christabel" has not yet begun. (EY #141; GCL 43.) 197. [1800,] Sept 16 STC writes Godwin from Keswick: Derwent's birth (see ! 1800:194). SC well; will Godwin become godfather? (CL I #350. See 1800:202.) 198. Sept 17 STC writes James Tobin from Keswick: STC and W ex pect to remain in the area for six months to six years. [Tobin is apparently anticipating a visit to Keswick]; STC j encourages him. Every line of "Christabel" has been pro duced "with labor-pangs." STC now abandons poetry alto- j igether; reserves criticism for himself.. No thought of col-! ilecting his MP essays; "they are not worth it." SC, new ibaby well; also Hartley. Heard from Godwin "a few days i jhence" (see 1800:182). (CL I #351; GCL 43.) i 199. [1800, probably Sept 19] [STC, evidently on a walk, sees a lovely rainbow against Skiddaw.] (CN I #807.) t ' i i ; 200. [1800, between Sept 20 and 23] ‘ • j STC records a comment on feeling hollowness after jthe death of a child, [a probable reflection on the death of Berkeley. ] (CN I #812; CL . I #274; cf. . . . CL II #523.)...... ! ; (1800) 225 201. [1800,] Sept 22 Prom Keswick STC observes that the rain has come at last; notices the mist on the hills and lake. (CN I #808.) j 202. Sept 22 j STC writes Godwin from Keswick: Received his letter j (unpreserved, but in it Godwin declines STC's request that | he stand godfather at Derwent's christening-rsee 1800:197).! !Godwin ' s tragedy to be acted in Dec. STC ' s•own tragedy i (Osorio; see GCL 23) will remain at Keswick, W's at Gras- j mere. STC's reasons for not having Hartley christened. SC! is now "quite comfortable." Godwin may come and spend "the! next four weeks...."47 (cl I #352.) ! ' . ! 203. Sept 23 C—26) ! STC goes to the W's Sept 23, (leaves with Robert Jones on the 26th). (DWJ I, 62; see 1800:204.) While at j Grasmere STC participates, with DW, in transcribing the LB ! Preface for the press. (EY #142.) 204. Sept 26ff j STC leaves Grasmere for Keswick on Sept 26, as Der went is very ill. Robert Jones goes with him (Moorman I, 475, DWJ I, 62), spends [some days] visitingSTC (DWJ I, 62.) 205. Sept 27 ' Derwent, very ill, is baptized [in a private cere mony] . (CN I #813 and n. See 1803:204.) 206. [1800, Sept 28J f STC writes Daniel Stuart [from Keswick]: STC's MP essays; Derwent's illness and possible death. (CL I #353.)! • • ' i 207. Sept 29 There is a hail-storm at Keswick, after which STC ob-! serves the moon over Derwent Water. (CN I #817.) 47There is no record of a visit by Godwin, now or at i any time. ' [ (1800) 226 |208. [Probably 1800, between Sept 29 and Oct 7, probhbly I Sept 29 or 30] j STC notes how the taste of the public is to be des- | ipised, [possibly in view of a contemplated essayJ (Inq. Sp. j #123). (CN I #818 and n. W discusses this subject, LB Preface (1800).) 209. [Probably 1800, between Sept 29 and Oct 7] ! STC observes a moonlight night on which there is no moon visible, an entry [with a possible "Christabel" con nection] . (CN I #820; GCL 68.) 210. [1800, c Sept 20] j STC writes Daniel Stuart from Keswick: Derwent still; very ill; STC's MP essays— STC willing again to write for MP on a regular paid basis. ?Wls health declines constant-; ly— in a few days his Poems will be published, with a long I poem of mine ["Christabel"]....The Preface contains our joint opinions on Poetry." (CL I #354; GCL 68.) ; DW records on this day that she "wrote the last sheet| of Notes and Preface" to LB, meaning that the Preface is finished. (DWJ I, 62. See 1800:193, DWJ I, 61.) 211. [1800, fall] STC begins, but does not complete, The Triumph of Loyalty. (DA 509 nl07; CL I #366 nl, p. 3W; 1800:269; CL ! I #366; GCL 77.) 212. Oct 3 j W talks much about the object of the LB Preface. DW ; notices the death of Amos Cottle in MP. (DWJ I, 63; GCL 66. ) STC is up all night writing essays for MP. (DWJ I, 64, Oct 4.) 213. Oct 4 [-Oct 7] i STC goes to Grasmere because W is ill (see 1800:210; CL I #355). (He leaves the morning of [Octt7]; see 1800: 218.) (DWJ I, 64.) He arrives at the W's during dinner, "very wet...." W, DW, STC talk till midnight. He has been I up all night the night of Oct 3, "writing Essays for the I newspaper." (He evidently reads "Christabel" II to W, DW.] j DW says, "Exceedingly delighted with the second part of 1 'Christabel.'" (DWJ I, 64; CN I #821 and n; GCL 68.) ;.... ■ ■ ■ ........... (1800) 227 ; f ! | I 2X4■ [Probably 1800, between Oct 4 and 7] i ■ [STC perhaps visits Easedale from Grasmere, or at least sees it, and remarks on its coloration.J (CN I #832 j :and n.) j 215. Oct 5 i STC, [who has apparently spent the night at Dove Cot-I tage], reads "Christabel" "a second time" to W, DW; DW says; they "had increasing pleasure" in: it this time. STC walks j to Ambleside after dark with DW to mail a letter, possibly < an addition to the LB Preface. On the way, they notice the; reflection of Silver How in lakes Rydal and Grasmere. [STC: probably stays the night.] (DWJ I, 64; CN I #769 and n; GCL 68.) 216. [Oct 6] STC intends to leave Grasmere on this day- but does not. [W,] DW, [STC] walk after dinner to Rydai.. They de- ' cide not to print "Christabel" with the LB. [STC probably stays the night at Grasmere.] (DWJ I, 64; GCL 68.) 217. [1800, c Oct 6 or 7] W writes Biggs and Cottle: The cancellation of the printing of "Christabel." (EY #144. See The Life of Dr. Henry Alford, 1873, p. 61 for W's recollection of his" opin-; ion of "christabel" at this time.)48 218. [Oct 7] (-Oct 22) STC leaves Grasmere 11:00 a.m., returns to Keswick. (He remains at Keswick till Oct 22, when he returns to Grasmere; 'see 1800:233.) (DWJ I, 64; CL I #355.) From Keswick, he writes Daniel Stuart: Went to Gras mere because of W's illness (see 1800:210); has returned today. Schiller, Napoleon. Encloses the MS version of "Alcaeus to Sappho" (PW I, 353; GCL 71.) That poem is pro-! bably written on or shortly before this day. (CL I #355.)4?..... .... 48per}lapS strangely, Isabella Fenwick records no com- | merit on this subject. I 49pruman suggests that this poem was not an original STC composition, since it was never claimed by him after wards (p. 43), and since it seems to have beeri a W poem (DA 45, 455 n8; EY #157). (1800) 228 219. Oct 9 STC writes HD from Keswick: Received HD's letter i (unpreserved) . STC is writing for Stuart in MP. "Chrisr- tabel" and the purpose of LB (see GCL 68)? "Christabel" will be published with "a long Blank Verse Poemi of W's en titled the Pedlar--." (On the W's and "Christabel" see CL I #356 nl, p. 631.) W's health still poor. STC planning an essay on poetry. SC and children well? Derwent's-bap tism (see 1800:205). Encloses a "Skeltoniad" (a satire on James Mackintosh, Stuart's brother-in-law— see GCL 72.) : (CL I #356.) Lamb writes STC: The death of Amos Cottle? Lamb's visit of condolence to Joseph Cottle, with George Dyer. (LL I #83.)50 220. [1800,] Oct 10 The first snow falls on Skiddaw. [STC probably vis its, and describes, White Water Dash, a falls in the vicin ity of Keswick. This visit may be on the tour to Cald- beck, the Howk, Carrock and Swinside which he describes the next day (see 1800:222). He possibly spends the night at Heskett Newmarket, at the sign of the Queen's Head (cf. CN #1426).] (CN I #825 and n, 828 and n, 1426, 1519, 1520? CL I #360.) 221. [Probably 1800, between Oct 10 and 20] [STC evidently observes a tree covered with snow]? records a reference to the "Sopha of Sods"-— the Windy Brow seat made by W, DW, and STC Aug 13, 1800 (see 1800:161). These lines may indicate a connection with "Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side," [which must have been written c this time.] (CN I #830 and n? GCL 73.) 222. [1800, Oct 11] [Possibly on this day] STC climbs Carrock and de scends to Keswick via Swinside. [He may have left Keswick the day before (see 1800:220).] STC records an observation on poets and poetic char acter, [which appears to derive from having read Cowley's Vision concerning...Cromwell.... 1 (CN I #829 and n. A similar comment appears BL II, 97.) From Keswick [c Oct 11, possibly after his return from Carrock and .Swinside]', STC writes TP: He is "sweat- 50The last surviving Lamb letter to STC till Sept 8, 1802 (see 1802:178). His account of the visit to Cottle is worth reading just for its humor. (1800) 229 ing" now with his work (for MP) for having spent so much time on "Christabel” and the W transcriptions for LB (GCL 66, 68). STC will write for Stuart "till Christmas; and ;intend to carry on a periodical Work, in numbers, to be af-r terwards republished in a Volume." SC, Derwent are well; STC only tolerable— bad eyes. W's health.is "indifferent." STC sees him "upon an average about once a month, or per- j haps three weeks" (a generally true observation). TP's es-j says have been published in MP: "made a great sensation" j (see 1800:64). STC wants another article. TP should subr* | scribe to MP.51 (CL I #357.) ! 223. [1800, c, and certainly before, Oct 13J i I STC writes "The Mad Monk." (PW I, 347-49; GCL 74).52i 224. Oct 13 "The Mad Monk" first published. (MP Oct 13, 1800; PW I, 347-49; GCL 74.) 225. Oct 13 [STC probably receives a letter from Godwin that has j not survived.] STC writes Godwin from Keswick: Godwin's play ( Antonio), and "future philosophical speculations." STC's attempt to finish ["Christabel"J for the second edi- ! tion of LB has thrown him behind in "bread-and-beef" occu- ; pations. (CL I #358; GCL 68.) 226. Oct 15 (-Oct 17) W goes to Keswick on Oct 15, [apparently with the purpose of obtaining STC's. contributions to poems on the naming of places, which STC is supposed to be writing to j take the place of "Christabel" in LB (see EY #144).] (W j remains till Oct 17, when he returns to Grasmere; see 1800:i 228.) (DWJ I, 67. See PW I, 349-50; GCL 68). 227. [1800, c Oct 15-17J | STC sends to Biggs and Cottle the advertisement for ; his projected poems on the naming of places, to' replace "Christabel" in LB. Shaver suggests (EY #145 nl, p. 305) j Slip's essays were published Oct 3,4,8,9,14, 1800 (Poole II, 15). Ironically, TP did not have a subscription to MP, so that STC had to tell him of the appearance of his articles. 52See Stephen M. Parrish and David V. Erdman, "Who Wrote the 'Mad Monk'?" BNYPL, LXIV (1950), 209-37;. and DA “(1800) 230 j I j ! [that it was dictated by W during his Oct 15-17 stay at J jSTC's]. (EY #145; CL X #359; GCL 68.) j i 1228. [Oct] 17 j W returns to Grasmere, with the report that STC has "done nothing for the L.B." (DWJ X, 6.7. See 1800:226.) 229. Oct 18 | : ’ ' i STC writes HD from Keswick: STC has been walking on j Carrock Mountain (see 1800:222); met an old woman with rheumatism; asks HD to tell him a cure for rheumatism so hef can help the woman. (CL I #360.) [Possibly c this time] STC writes "A Thought Sugges- i ted by a View." (PW X, 347 and nl; GCL 75.) 230. [1800, between Oct 19 and 26] ■ STC observes that Derwent first laughs during this week. (CN I #835; cf. 838.) 231. Oct 21 "Inscription for a Seat" first published. (MP Oct 21, 1800: PW X, 349-50; GCL 73.)53 232. [1800,] Oct 21 At 2:00 a.m. STC hears the wind groaning as if in deep pain (cf. "Dejection Ode" 11. 111-16: PW X, 367-68; GCL 85). Later in the day, he notices the dazzling silver : of the lake. This day is his 28th birthday. (CN X #832 and n, 833.) 233. [Oct 22 (23)] STC arrives at the W's for dinner. He has done noth ing [for LB (GCL 66)— see 1800:226]. DW records, "We were i very merry." STC goes with DW to look at the view "from his seat" [probably the one in the orchard discovered Sept ; 1— see 1800:183J. After supper STC reads "Christabel," to j the Stoddarts and- Simpsons who have come [probably the com-: 454, n2, for both sides of the argument regarding STC's authorship of this poem. S^See £e s^lincourt, WPW I, 272,301-02, for a dis cussion of STC's. unacknowledged debt to W for this poem. See also Smyser, PMLA, 419-426. I (1800) 231 ; i 1 ; • j Ipleted version— EKC 134; CN I #798n? GCL 68]. [STC spends | 'the night, returns to Keswick the following day (see 1800: ! 234) . . ] 234. [Oct] 23 [-Nov 28] j STC leaves the W's for Keswick on [Oct] 23, in the company of John Stoddart (see DWJ X, 69n) . (He stays home j till [Nov 28], when he goes again to the W's; see 1800: 1258). (DWJ I, 69.) [This is probably the Stoddart visit during which. STC gives him a copy of "Christabel," which i Stoddart later reads to Walter Scott.] (EKC 135; Godwin ; (Paul) II, 79; Lockhart II, 23, cf. 198, 246, 273, 308, 350. See GCL 68.) [Stoddart probably stays till sometime j during the week of Nov 6-12 (see CL II #374; 1800:242).J 235. [1800,] Oct 25 SH goes with Joanna Hutchinson from Stockton to Pen- ; rith. (MWL #1.) 23.6. [1800, late Oct] STC writes "To the Snow Drop." (PW I, 356-58; GCL 76.) He includes it in an anonymous letter to Daniel Stu- art. It is not published in MP.'; 237. Oct 30 STC pulls his writing desk before him and can think of nothing to write; records that he "knew not what to do." ;(CN I #834 and n.) 238. [Late autumn 1800] STC begins to write The Triumph of Loya'l'ty. (PW I, 558-71; GCL 77.) 239. [1800, Nov] STC writes "A Stranger Minstrel." (PW I, 350-52; GCL 78.) 240. Nov 1 STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Keswick: TW in the West Indies; STC would accompany him on a tour if it would encourage him to go; "Christabel" and LB vol II (see GCL 68). STC's relationship with TP; description of Keswick; his landlord's library (William Jackson); Derwent "a very Stout Boy.*.-."; RS's Thalaba is going to press. (Cl I #362.) I ........................ ’ ..-.... " (1800) 232 ; i i ; ' ! 241., [1800 J Nov 6 STC notices that "the mountain above the Grange" (pro bably either Gate Crag, or Glaramara) is patchily visible j through a blanket of white cloud. (CN I #837 and n.) | 242. [Nov 6-12] ■ j John Stoddart leaves Keswick [probably sometime dur- ! ing this week]. (See CL II #374; 1800:234.) 243. [1800,J Nov 10 JW writes DW from Forncett: Tell him as soon as the | last poems for LB are sent to the printers so he can look for the published volume (GCL 66). Glad to hear that SH isj to be at Grasmere "for such a long time" (see 1800: 235). (JWL 74.) I 244. Nov 12 1 STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Keswick: Very ill with inflamed eyes; has had leeches twice.5^ He and SC aref observing Derwent closely for his first smiles and laughs. (CL I #363.) 245. Nov 14 TP writes STC: TP's birthday; congratulations on the; birth of Derwent— why didn't STC name him after TP, the godfather? Received STC's letter (unpreserved); the effect of paper money on the price of provisions. The strain within their relationship: "What reason is there, Coler idge, why you cannot write to me with as much pleasure as heretofore?...We shall see you at Christmas" (but see 1800: : 269: STC is unable to go to Stowey for Christmas). (Poole i II, 17-20.) | 246. [Nov 14] 1 W, DW receive two letters from STC (unpreserved), who ! is very ill (see 1800:244). (DWJ I, 72.) S^This is the beginning of a long seige of recurring illness that continues through the next year, during which time STC begins to rely more and more regularly on laudan- i um for relief. The opium habit probably began in earnest j during this time. (See CL II #400; Cottle:Rec II, 157; EKC ! 138-39. See 1801:89, 1802:59 and n.) | '(1800) 233 i , ■ 247. [Nov 15, 17 (-Nov 22)] A terrible rain prevents W from going to STC's in the 'morning of the [15th,] but he goes in the evening after tea. DW follows on the 17th (see 1800:249). (They stay till Nov; 22; see 1800:225.) (DWJ I, 73.) ; j 248. Nov 16 | ! DW receives a letter from STC (unpreserved), who is I feeling better. William Jackson (STC's landlord) calls in < the evening, brings another letter from STC and W (also unpreserved). STC is better. (DWJ I, 73.) j 1249. Nov 17 DW walks to Keswick and STC's. Finds everyone well. (DWJ I, 73.) 250. Nov 18 From Keswick STC writes the editor of the Monthly Review: He is not necessarily a partisan of the German theater just because he has written a translation of Wal len stein. (CL I #364.). 251. [1800,] Nov 18 I DW touches Derwent's face with her cold hands? he cries, and STC notices, [probably for the first time], that he! has tears in his eyes when crying. STC observes that Hartley [apparently learned to talk by touching his moth er.] (CN I #838.) 252. [Nov 18] STC, W walk toward Penrith. [STC,] W meet SH at Threlkeld (see 1800:235).^5 [STC,] W, SH arrive at Keswick! at tea time. [SH's visit at the W's lasts several months.]\ (DWJ I, 73. See Moorman I, 498; 1801:61,70.) 253. [Nov 19 ] [STC, W, SH,] DW walk by the lakeside? [STC, W, SH] go to Mr. Denton's. (DWJ I, 73.) ! DW says only, "William met Sara Hutchinson at Threlkeld," but surely STC must have been with him, since they started out toward Penrith together. |..- ..... (1800) 234 j 254. [Nov 20] ! ’ ’ ' ! [STC, W, SH,J DW spend the morning in the town of jKeswick. William Jackson and Mr. Peach come to dinner. (On Peach, see DWJM 52, nl.) (DWJ I, 73.) [It is perhaps at this dinner that Mr. Peach asks STC if. he thinks Swift • was really the author of "Mawwollop."J (CN I #852 and n.) j 255. [Nov 22] j W, DW, [SH] leave STC's for Grasmere,' after [pos sibly all of them ] visit Mr. Peach's "Chinese pictures." :(DWJ I, 73.) ! 256. Nov 24 ■ I "Alceus to Sappho" first published. (MP Nov 24, 1800; PW I, 353; GCL 71.) 257. [1800,] Nov 27 Hartley is ill, "white as a sheet." STC sees patches; of sunshine on the snow-covered mountains through the fog. [Possibly this is also] the first day on which the whole ground is covered with snow. (CN I #846 and n, 847.) 258. [Nov 28] (-Dec 2) STC arrives at the W's Nov 28, (leaves Dec 2). (DWJ - I, 74. See 1800:263.) He is sick, with "great boils upon j his neck"; goes to bed early. Has a terrible dream of a woman named Ebon Ebon Thalud attempting to pull out His right eye; when he awakes, it is swollen. (CN I #84$ and n; cf. CL I #33; BL I, 6; SM (Appendix C) ; Cottle:Rem 452-1; 53.) " 1 259. [1800,] Nov 29 STC finds Rydal "more lovely than Grasmere," noting ; the contrast between the variety of the lake and the uni- j formity of the snow-covered mountains reflected in it. (CN I #849.) 260. Nov [30] | STC remains at the W's. (DWJ I, 74.)56 56dw has dated this entry wrong: Sun was the 30th. See DWJM 53, nl. ■(1800) 235 ; i 1 |261. [1800, NovJ | ; • j STC records the following observations in his note- j book: I i I I • ; a. In relation to Hartley and Derwent: "Do unto ! others as they would do unto you...," [probably an observa tion on their behavior.] (CN I #853 and n.) b. A description of a cottage with a garden high up j on a hill, and a wall with three recesses containing a ; variety of things. [STC possibly sees this while at Gras- j mere, or pulls it from his imagination.] (CN I #854.) j c. A description of children sliding down a rock. !(CN I #855.) d. A description of a leaf blown about by the wind, : making a noise like a spinning wheel or a grasshopper. i(CN I #856.) 262. [Dec 1] STC is unable to leave Grasmere because of illness. (DWJ I, 74.) He notices the smoke from two chimneys form- j ing an arch. (CN I #859.) i 263. Dec 2 [-Dec 4J STC leaves Grasmere for Keswick. DW says, "Coleridge! was obliged to set off." [Possibly still feeling unwell, j he nevertheless feels it necessary to go horned] (He stays j home only till Dec 4, when he returns to the W's.) (See 1800:264.) From Keswick he writes HD: Did not receive his let- ; ter till this evening. (The letter is unpreserved.) HD's • illness. Various scientific comments. STC ha!s been ill "for the last month." Hartley is ill: yellow jaundice. STC will publish "Christabel" by itself (see 1800:219). W ! has nearly finished "the concluding Poem" ("Michael"). Hartley' s. comments on the moon and the clouds. HD must visit. Has he seen TW? (CL I #365. See GCL 68.) 264. [Dec 4 (-Dec 6)] STC arrives at the W's Dec 4 just as the W's are fin-; ishing dinner. STC eats nothing, "to cure his boils." ; I STC, SH, W,] DW walk after tea by moonlight to look at j Langdale covered with snow, the Pikes and the Old Man. j [All] sit up talking till 1:00 a.m. (DWJ I, .75.)- (STC ! stays till the morning of the 6th. See 1800:268. SH is still there also. See 1800:252.) . . . . ; (1800) 236 j i 265. Dec 4 ! i "The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone" first pub- I lished. (MP Dec 4, 1800; PW I, .353-55; GCL 72.) 266. Dec 5 I JW writes MH from London: Impatience at the non- j : appearance of LB. (JWL #6.) | 267. [Dec 5] j STC, W set off toward Keswick, but t!he wind in STC's : eyes makes him turn back. DW says, "We were very merry in the evening, but grew sleepy soon, though we did not go to bed till twelve o'clock." (DWJ I, 75.) 268. [Dec 6 (-Dec 20)] STC returns to Keswick Dec 6. W/ [DW, SH] accompany j him to the foot of the Rays; SH, DW accompany him half-way j to Keswick, [W turning back probably because feeling un well.] (STC stays home till Dec 20, when he returns to Grasmere.) (DWJ I, 75. See 1800:284.) i 269. Dec 6 From Keswick STC writes TP: STC,'s illness: "I al most fear I shall not be able to raise money enough by Christmas to make it prudent for me to journey Southward. ! I shall however try hard-for it." Will Write "a long, long letter" if he can't come.57 His plan was to go to London, ; [perhaps to see about the performance of The Triumph of Loyalty] (see CL I #366 nl, p. 650; GCL 77), then to Stow- ey and Gunville. Hartley ill; if he. lives, Will be "a great Genius." Derwent "a fat pretty child, healthy and j hungry.." Almost named him Thomas Poole Coleridge. LB vol II "on the point of publication." C. Lloyd at Ambleside. (CL I #366. See 1800:66.) i 270. [1800, Dec 6J i[STC probably receives a letter from Godwin that has j not survived.] STC writes Godwin [from Keswick]: STC's plan for a work on geography which might become a standard school text; Godwin's tragedy (Antonio); STC's illness; Hartley's illness. Does Godwin see Lamb often? C. Lloyd j at Ambleside. • STC has not seen him. (CL I #367.) ! 57There is no record of such a letter, and the visit ! never occurred. (1800) 237 271. Dec 8 STC notices and describes a column of sunlight slant ing over Pocklington's. Borrowdale while Borrowdale is under ; thick mist. (CN-1'#86.2.) 272. [DecJ 10 (-Dec 14) j . . . i DW goes to Keswick [Dec] 10, (.stays till Dec 14; see I 1800:275.) (DWJ I, 76.) She finds STC improved. j 273. Dec 10 j Charles Lloyd writes Thomas Manning from Ambleside: j "We hear a good deal of Coleridge, but never see him." (LM| 56; see CL I #367.) ! 274. Dec 12 JW writes MH from London: The non-appearance of LB (GCL 66). SH is now at Grasmere (see 1800:252); JW wishes j he were there too. "Colridges [sic] Walestein [sic] is spoken very lightly of in the month[l]y review."58 JW un- ' derstands that SH is "very much pleased with Grasmere." (JWL #7.) 275. Dec 14 DW leaves Keswick, returns to Grasmere. (DWJ I, 76.) ; 276. Dec 15 STC writes Thomas Longman (bookseller) from Keswick: The last sheet of LB has been sent59; negotiations are be gun for securing a review; people who should receive cop ies; the superiority of vol II to vol I. "I am especially | pleased that I have contributed nothing to the second vol- ■ \ame, as now I can exert myself loudly and everywhere in their favor without suspicion of vanity or self-interest." j STC's illness; family well. STC will leave Keswick (for j London) "the day after Christmas." (CL I #368. See 1800: i 58»stc's translation of Schiller1 s...Wallenstein had j appeared in the summer of 1800. Longman gave him £50 for i the work— and regretted it, for he lost £250....See STC 863" (Ketcham note, JWL 196.) ^Actually, the last of the material for the LB did not arrive in Bristol until Dec 23 (CL I #368 n2, p. 654.) ; (1800) 238 ] I 286, 287; GCL 66.) i 277. Dec 17 STC writes John Thelwall from Keswick: Is Thelwall j still at Lyswin Farm? STC's "literary pursuits": the J northern languages; thei relationship between ideas, feel- j ings, and words. Has "altogether abandoned" poetry, be- ; cause of lack of poetic genius and original power. Family j well. (CL I #369.) STC writes William Godwin: The failure of Godwin's tragedy; suggestions for a second one. "It is my present purpose to spend the two or three weeks after the Christmas j Week in London....I go to Grasmere at the end of the week." j (CL I #370.) | 278. Dec 18 i ■ RS writes Charles Danvers: The STC's lack of corres-j pondence since Edith's confinement; thei heathenish names of i STC's children (Derwent). (NL 233.) I 279. [Dec 18] SC, Derwent arrive at the W's, [bringing with them, according to Shaver, EY #148, the text of W's "Michael" ; through I. 206, all in STC's hand. There is no indication ; of how long they stay, or of why STC does not come with them.] (DWJ I, 76.) W sends to Biggs and Cottle the transcription of "Mi-| chael" in STC's hand. (EY #148.) SH transcribes the remainder of "Michael" for the printers. (EY #149; GCL 66.) 280. Dec [18 or 19] j I W writes Cottle: SC, Derwent at Grasmere, STC at Keswick. (EY #146.) 281. Dec 18 W writes Longman and Rees: Explanation of the delay j in the printing of LB— the substitution of "Michael" for : "Christabel."" The unsuitability of "Christabel." STC's statement of the agreement between Longman and Rees. LB written on the basis of a new theory in poetry. (EY #150. ! Seel GCL 66,68.) 282. Dec 19 I STC writes Francis Wrangham from Keswick:. W received j his letter. W and procrastination. W is "a great, a true . (1800) 239“ |Poet— I am only a kind of a Metaphysician." W has "even ! now sent off the last sheet of a second Volume of his Lyrical Ballads-"-." Invitation for a visit. STC often j cuts himself through watching the scenery while shaving. | : (CL I #371; GCL 66.) ' ! STC observes the crescent moon, hazy between thei I clouds in the sky. (CN I #875.) ; ■ i ; i 283. [1800, Dec 19] j i Lamb writes Thomas Manning: Lamb sends Manning all j of STC's letters to him, some of them discussing Lamb's play (John' Woodville). (LL I #93. For Manning's comment, j see ML 47; 1800:285.) 284. [Dec 20 (-probably by Dec 23,i.l800)] STC arrives at the W's on [Dec 20], "very ill, rheu- ! matic, feverish," according, to DW. (Returns to Keswick, still ill, [probably by Dec 23]; (see 1800:286.) (DWJ I, 76; CL II #374.) 285. [1800, Dec 22] Thomas Manning writes Lamb: [Among the STC letters j forwarded by Lamb to Manning (see 1800:283) was perhaps a j MS copy of W's "Poet's Epitaph," with a critique by STC. Manning's comment may refer to this]: STC must have been either asleep or demon-possessed when he wrote the critique, sent by Lamb. (ML 47.) 286. [1800, on or shortly before Dec 23 (-sometime before : Jan 3, 1801)J [STC probably returns from Grasmere to Keswick on or i shortly before Dec 23.^0 (He probably returns to Grasmere ! sometime before Jan 3, 1801.)] (See 1801:3.) [Before leaving Grasmere, or after returning to Kes wick], STC writes Biggs and Cottle: Instructions regarding' W's "Michael." (CL I #372.) I 287. [1800, Dec 23-sometime before Jan 3, 1801] [STC probably returns to Grasmere.] (See 1801:3.) 288. ‘ iProbably 1800, Dec] ; . | STC and SH record the following notebook entries: 60The postmark of CL I #372 is Keswick, Dec 23, so STC must have returned to Keswick by that time. j a. (STC) : l umph of Loyalty: b. CSH): A transcription, [possibly at the dicta tion (from memory?) of STCJ , of a passage-from-Jeremy Tay- | lor's Sermon XII of the XXVII Golden, Grove Sermons, on the old woman who was going to burn Heaven and put out the fire; of Hell. (CN I #872 and n.) j c. (STC): A note that SH, making a shirt for her brother George, sends for the measurement of his neck; is i greeted with a humorous reply. (CN I #873.) d. (SH): A transcription into STC's notebook of a ! list of the common names of plants from William Withering's; An Arrangement of British Plants (1796) III, 891-920, among! ;wfi"ich she substitutes, [perhaps significantly] , "Forget-me- i not" for Withering's "Mouse ear." K. Coburn speculates j that her use of the word [may perhaps have been a reminder j to STC of "The Keepsake" (see GCL 70), of which she is the j subject, or it may have prompted recollections that gave rise to the poem if it was not already written.] (CN I #863 and n. Cf. "The Keepsake": PW i, 346 and^n.) e. (STC): A description of how bn receiving a let ter, STC does not read it immediately, but carries it around in his pocket awhile till he is emotionally calmer— ! perhaps all day— and only finally reads it. [Is it a let ter from SH?J (CN I #901, 1517 and n.) (1800) 240 s I i The earliest extant sketch of The Tri- j PW I, 421n; PW II, 1060-73. See GClT'77,.) | 1801 1. [1801-1802] j STC composes the following: a. "A Day-Dream." (PW X, 385-86; GCL 79a.) b. "The Happy Husband." . (PW I, .388; GCL 79b.) :2. [1801, Jan] | Lamb writes W about the LB Preface: "All its dogmas , are true and just, and most of them new, as criticism." (LL I #96; GCL 66.) 3. [1801, probably Jan. 3 (-May 7)] [On probably Jan 3] STC returns to Keswick, still very ill. [He evidently remains at home with recurring illness ; till May 7, 1801, when he returns briefly to Grasmere.] (CL II #374. See 1801:84.) 4. Jan [6] ^ ; STC writes TP from Keswick: His three-week illness with rheumatic fever. Must defer his visit south till warm weather (see 1800:245,269); his lack-of production for the Wedgwoods; intention to publish Osorio and "Christabel" (see GCL 23,68); family well. (CL II #373. See 1801:7 for; TP's reply.) j 5. Jan 9 George Bellas Greenough, in Nether Stowey, calls on John Chester: Learns that STC stopped at Stowey immediately on his return to England (see 1799:86), returned to London in April, stayed .six weeks (see 1799:171)1, then moved to Cum-j • * * H e actually went to London in Nov of 1799 and stayed four months. 241 (1801) 242 iberland (see 1800:111). While in London, he accepted Long- iman's. suggestion to translate Schiller's: Piccoibmini. Worked also for MP; declined an offer, from Stuart to be his| partner as editor. Attended the theater at Drury Lane four) times per week. Met Godwin, Horne Tooke,’ Sheridan; is re- j conciled to RS. STC, W are sharing a house in Keswick.2 • The birth of Derwent (see 1800:194). STC seldom writes ; even to TP now. SC Writes: Unhappy at Keswick. C. Lloyd j near Keswick. (EJM 234.) j 6. Jan 10 | JW writes to MH from London: Has heard from John Stod- ; dart that STC will be in town Jan 17; JW will be happy to see him. LB copies are not yet arrived in town. (JWL #8; GCL 66.)3 7. Jan 11 TP writes STC: Received his Jan 7 letter (actually Jan; 16J ; see 1801:4); consolation on STC's illness. TP's re gret at STC's leaving Stowey. STC must take care of him self. He has not yet fulfilled his potential. TP will visit STC during this year— and any time STC needs to see him. (Poole II, 23-25. See 1801:18 for STC's reply; also 1801:10.) STC writes HD from Keswick: His illness; returned from; Keswick "the Friday before last" (see 1801:3). (CL II #374.) 8. iProbably after Jan 11.] (-Jan 19) [Probably after Jan 11] W, DW come to visit STC, who is. ; ill.4 (They leave the imorning of the 19th. See 1801:3.) (CL II #375.) 9. Jan 14 STC [probably at Keswick] dictates to DW the following letters to accompany presentation copies of LB: To the Duchess of-Devonshire, the actress Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, ' 2A mistake, of course, although from the frequency of the visits back and forth, Greeriough was not far wrong! 3STC probably was not in London on the 17th. See 1801: : 9,10. 4STC would probably have mentioned the W's in his Jan 11 letter to HD if they had been with him by then (see 1801:7.) . [................ -... -........-.-......... ...... (1801) 243 ; ; # i i 'Sir James Bland Burgess, William Wilberforce, and probably tars. Anna Letitia Barbauld. W signs his name to the let ters, writes one to Charles James Fox himself. (EY Appendix VI, p. 312 nl; GCL 66.)5 ! 10. Jan 19 | ; i W, DW leave Keswick for Grasmere in the morning. (CL I II #375.) i STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's illness. LB will | be published by the time this letter reachesi TP. TP should j buy the second volume and also the second edition of the first, for "the valuable preface." (CL II #375. See 1801: i 7; GCL 66.) 11. Jan 23 I STC writes John Thelwall: STC's illness; Thelwall's \ religious faith and STC's; family well; Hartley "a spirit | of Joy dancing on an Aspen Leaf." (CL II #376. Cf. "Christabel" II, 11. 56-57: PW I, 235; GCL 68.) j 12. [1801, Jan 25] [LB is published c Jan 25.] (JWL #10; 1801:16; EY ! #154 nl, p. 317; Moorman I, 501.) 13. Jan 26 j C. Lloyd writes Thomas Manning: "Coleridge and I have seen each other twice— I do not think him much altered j since the time of our former intercourse— except that, just [ . now, his health seems sadly impaired— ." (LM 61. See 1800:273.) 14. [1801, probably Jan 29 or 30] j Lamb writes W: Astute criticism of AM, 1800 LB. (LL i I #96; GCL 66.) 15. Jan 30 j JW writes W: Everyone he meets is delighted with at ! least one LB poem (see 1798:12), especially "The Brothers." L JW has received SH's recent letter; hopes STC is better. (JWL #9; GCL 66.) i 16. Jan 31 JW writes MH: The LB have been out for about five ! days. JW is sending a copy of LB in this evening's coach, j ^See James Hutton, Letters of Sir Bland Burgess, 308, for Burgess' reply. j ' (1801)244 i ) j(JWL #10; GCL 66.) Later the same evening he writes her again: SH is going back to Grasmere when the W's return from the Clark- j sons' (SH has evidently been visiting at the Clarksons' from Grasmere) ; JW almost wishes he were with them. STC has been ill; JW wanted to see him before his sailing. (JWL #10.) | ! i 17. [Probably 1801, between Jan 31 and Feb 13] [Derwent is probably ill, or at least experiencing some; kind of upset that STC describes as "agony."] STC notices j and records a reference to his wife taking off her wig and I combing her hair. (CN I #906 and n.) 18. Feb 1 j STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's convalescence; will j take "one week more of Repose" before beginning to work again. Misses TP; family well. The letters to important people regarding LB (see 1801:9). (CL II #377. See 1801:7.! See 1801:22 for TP's reply.) ; 19. Feb 3 STC writes HD from Keswick: William Calvert's idea of ; the Windy Brow house for himself and the W's. The study of I chemistry as a plan— for a long time STC has "wished to initiate [himself] in chemical science," but for the pre- ; sent all he can do is "sympathize blindly" with HD's work ; (but see 1796:176; 1801:51); will HD recommend books?’ STC's : convalescence. (CL II #378.) 20. [1801, Feb 6] JW writes W from London: Sorry that STC is not coming ; to town; JW was hoping to see him. (JWL #12.) / 21. Feb 7 Lamb writes Robert Lloyd: Comparison of Manning and j Coleridge; remark on 1800 LB. (LL I #98; GCL 66.) ; 22. Feb 8 TP writes to STC: Happy to hear of STC's probable soon irecovery. What about the beginning of May for a TP visit to| Keswick? Encouragement to STC to persevere at his work. j TP is pleased with the letters to Fox and Wilberforce; has j sent for LB. Josiah Wedgwood's report of TW's progress in j metaphysics. (Poole II, 28-29. See 1801:18. See 1801:26 for STC's reply.) I""""..... .................... .." (1801) 245 i : i I 23. [1801, Feb] 8 j JW writes MH from London: W, DW still at the Clark sons' (see 1801:16); STC is better. JW was hoping to see him in town but was disappointed. (JWL #13.) j 24. Feb 9 STC writes DW from Keswick: [DW is at the Clarksons' (see 1801:16); does STC write to her there, or at Keswick?] j Projected SH visit to Keswick— STC will walk halfway to ’ Grasmere to meet her on Fri (Feb 13), or else walk all the way and bring her home from Grasmere on Sat (Feb 14) (see 1801:28); conversation with Hartley. (CL II #379.) 25. [1801, Feb, probably before Feb 13] [Probably before Feb 13,] at Keswick, STC writes for the Wedgwoods a series of philosophical letters dealing with Locke and Descarte. In letter #384 he says that Locke's Essay on Human Understanding is "only a Prolix Paraphrase on Descartes with foolish Interpolations of the Paraphrast's" (see also 1801:26).6 (CL II #380-84.) 26. Feb 18 STC writes TP from Keswick: TP's coming visit— "let it be in the middle of May" (see 1801:22, 84); the James Mack intosh lectures; SC improving from a bad sore throat; Der went to be inoculated for smallpox. Will send copies of the Wedgwood philosophical letters "in the course of the next week" (see 1801:25,31,36,37). "I think I have proved [Locke] to have gained a reputation to which he has no honest claim." (CL II #380. See 1801:49 for TP's re- p!y.) I 27. [1801, c Feb 14 (perhaps by Feb 23, or at least by Mar 2)] [W, DW, SH return to Grasmere from the Clarksons' pro bably by Feb 14. W, DW go to Keswick, possibly with SH on Feb 14, or almost certainly within the next few days.] They return to Keswick [without SH c Feb 25, perhaps by Feb ; 23, or at least by Mar 2.] (See 1801:16,23,35,38; On Feb 13 STC says in his letter to TP: "My Letters to the [Wedgewoods] [sic] shall be copied out and sent you, j infcthe course of the next week," as though the letters are j already written at that time. See HCR Diary I, chap. XIII on STC's opinion of Locke. j (1801) 246 |EY #155 and nl, p. 319; Moorman I, 512-13.) [Perhaps Feb 114 is the day W writes to JW the letter he receives Feb 16 I (see 1800:30): W, DW, "walked from Mr. Clarkson's over the mountains and...are now going to Keswick."] 28. [1801, perhaps Feb 14 (-late Feb or early Mar)] i SH goes to visit the STC's at Keswick [on perhaps Feb 14, or perhaps a day or two later. Whether STC goes to jmeet her at Grasmere (see 1801:24), or whether she goes to ;Keswick with the W's (see 1801:27) is uncertain] (EY #155 nl, p. 319). (She remains at Keswick till late Feb or early Mar, when she returns to Grasmere; iee 1801:35). 29. Feb 15 Lamb writes Thomas Manning: General literary reaction to LB; Lamb's late letter to W on LB (see 1801:14;. GCL 66); :the replies from STC and W in defense of W's poetry (neither of these has survived); favorable criticism of 1800 LB (see ML 52 for Manning's negative reaction). (LL I #99.) 30. Feb 16 JW writes MH: By this time W, DW, [SH] are back at Grasmere from the Clarksons', and "they are now going to Keswick." He does not know how long they plan to stay at Keswick or if SH returns to Grasmere with them (she almost surely does— see 1801:28, 34), or how long she will stay there if she does go to Grasmere (she stays at Keswick till late Feb or early Mar— see 1801:35.) (JWL #14.) 31. Feb 18 [Probably at Keswick]^ STC makes for TP a copy of his i first philosophical letter on James Locke for the Wedg woods. He sends the original of the letter to Josiah Wedgwood (see CL I #381 headnote). (CL I #381; 1801:36.) 32. Feb 21 RS writes from Lisbon to C. ,W. Williams Wynn: RS ex- j pects "to journey through North Wales next summer to the Lakes, where Coleridge is settled, and to pass the autumn I...there." (CL II, 133.) JW writes to MH: The second volume of LB has been selling very well; the second edition of volume I not so ^The letter is postmarked Kendal, though there is no other evidence that STC was there, on. this day. ....... . (1801)247 i i well. (DCP, Feb 21, 1801; GCL 66.) j 33. [1801, perhaps by Feb 23, or at least by Mar 2] j W, DW return from Keswick to Grasmere, [leaving SH at j Keswick.) (See 1801:27,28; Moorman I, 512-13.) 34. [1801, probably Feb 23 or Mar 2] j j SH remains at Keswick, intending momentarily to return| to Grasmere for a month. (EY #155 and nl, p. 319.) ! 35. [1801, probably after Feb 23 or Mar 2 (-late Mar or j early Apr)) i | [SH probably leaves Keswick and returns to Grasmere, S probably after Feb 23 or Mar 2, remains probably a month, j till the end of Mar or early Apr, when she probably returns | home.) (EY #155 and nl, p. 319. See 1801:34,40.) 36. Feb 24 'j At Keswick STC makes a copy for TP of his second phil-j osophical letter for the Wedgwoods (see 1801:31,37). (CL II #382.)8 37. [1801, Feb, probably after Feb 24) At Keswick STC makes for TP a copy of his third phil osophical letter for the Wedgwoods. (CL II #383.) 38. Feb 25 JW writes MH: By this time W, DW "will be thinking of ! returning to Grasmere" (see 1801:27). (JWL #17; Moorman I, • 513.) 39. [1801, Feb 25) Thomas Manning writes Lamb: Manning's unfavorable ■ opinion- of LB volume II. (ML 52. See 1801:29. See 1801:41 8STC does not mail the original to the Wedgwoods, how-I ever, until Mar 24 (see 1800:54) , because of Josiah Wedg wood's lack of response to the first one (see CL II #381 headnote) . He does not send this copy to TP at this time either (see 1801:53), nor the one made shortly thereafter ! (see 1801:37) . i - (18 01) ‘ 24 81 j j - If or Lamb's reply. See also GCL 66.) 40. [1801, Feb 26] j JW writes MH from London: Received a letter from DW in the morning. SH staying at Keswick but will return to Gras-- mere for about a month. STC is better. (JWL #17.) I JW writes DW: Glad to hear that STC is better. John j Stoddart said yesterday that he received a recent letter ifrom STC [unpreserved] about LB: will JW go to Longman's to see if LB has been sent? JW was there this morning: Long- | man says LB was sent a month ago. (JWL #18; GCL 66.) ! : 41. [1801, late Feb] Lamb writes Thomas Manning: Manning's low opinion of LB (see 1801:39? GCL 66): "Between you and me, the Lyrical! Ballads are but drowsy performances. Lamb is sending some more W and STC letters, which he wishes Manning to return, j along with the former selection. (LL I #100. See 1800:283.; See 1801:50 for Manning's reply.) v I W writes from Grasmere to the Rev. Francis Wrangham: Declines Wrangham's invitation to him and STC to visit him in Yorkshire? STC's rheumatic illness, believed present re-; covery. Second edition of LB "has been out a month" (see i 1801:12) . (EY #154.) 42. [Probably 1801, Feb or Mar] STC records the following ; notebook entries: a. An observation on Hartley, barely able to talk, building an imaginary fireplace and fire, with four stones ; for the fireplace and two for the fire. Observes also that; Hartley learned to talk late because he learned to walk early. (CN I #918.) b. An observation on how mysterious it is that nerves; iare able to think. (CN I #920? cf. BL I, 91.) c. 1 1/2 lines from W's "Tintern Abbey," on the rela-j bionship between feeling and ideas: "and the deep power ofj joy / We see into the Life of Things— ." (This is a sub ject which of course was important to himl) (CN I #921 and: n; cf. BL I, 183.) i I 43. [Mar 2 (*3)] ! i STC is at the W's in Grasmere on [Mar 2;] sees C. Lloyd 9A tongue-in-cheek remark, in view of Lamb's extensive; praise of LB. .......................... ............ .. (1801) ' 2491 ■ i !there. (LM 63. See 1801:45.) He spends the night, re- j iturns the following day (see 1801:44). j i 44. [Mar 4] I ! I STC leaves the W's on [Mar- 4). (He has been visiting ; | [at least since the day before].'.. See 1801:43.) (LM 73.) j ;45. Mar 5 j I ' | C. Lloyd writes Thomas Manning from Ambleside: "I saw; Coleridge on monday [sic]— he was with the Wordsworths, andj left them yesterday— he looks in very indifferent health— I; don't think that he is busied in any literary production— I except it be finishing the ballad, part of which you heard j him repeat-— 1 1 ("Christabel"). (LM 63; GCL 68.) 46. Mar 6 [Probably from Keswick] STC writes Josiah Wade: Re ceived his letter this morning (unpreserved); hopeful of a ! visit sometime from Wade; Wade's trip to Germany. (CL I #385.) j 47. Mar 7 STC writes Godwin from Keswick: Merely a request for ; Godwin to write. (CL IX #386.) 48. [1801, Mar 9] JW writes to MR from London: Sorry that SH is to leave Grasmere soon. JW,likes STC's "Love" very much (PW I, 330-35; GCL 63). (JWL #21.) 49. Mar 14 TP writes to STCi Acknowledges receipt of STC's first; philosophical letter (see 1801:31). STC's opinion of ; Locke. Continues the letter, to SC: News of the neighbors at Stowey. (Poole II, 32-35. See 1801:26. See 1801:53 for STC's reply.) j i 50. [1801, Mar 14] Thomas Manning writes Lamb: Further criticism of LB vol II— he wonders that STC can be taken in by it. (ML i 54-55. See 1801:41; GCL 66.) i 51. [1801, Mar 16] STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's scientific studies; . j “ ' ~~ (1801) 250 I I jdifficulty sleeping. "I shall therefore take a Week's res pite? & make Christabel ready for the Press— " (see GCL (68); will prevail on Longman to accept "a work on the ori- iginality and merits of Locke, Hobbes, and H u m e ; print- ling blunder in "Michael" in LB; family well, "except per- Ihaps myself." (CL II #387; GCL 66.)lt} 52. Mar 17 Hartley notices and comments to STC on the mountain scene out STC's study window. STC shows him the whole scene reflected in a mirror, then observes how he struggles |to express himself concerning the difference between the actual scene and its reflection. (CN I #923 and n.) 53. Mar 23 STC writes TP from Keswick: Received his Mar 14 let ter (see 1801:49) responding favorably to his philosophical iletter; has not yet sent copies of letters 2 and 3. Josiah Wedgwood has not responded to letter #1. STC's negative I opinion of Sir Isaac Newton; the state of England. (CL II #388. See 1801:66 for TP's reply. See 1803:185 for STC's later thoughts on this letter and on Sir Isaac Newton.) STC is troubled today by rheumatism in the back of his head. (CL II #389.) 54. Mar 24 STC mails from Keswick his second and third philoso phical letters to the Wedgwoods (see 1801:36, 37). STC writes TP: STC's "hypochondriacal" letter of yes terday; America; has sent two more philosophical letters; the value of acorns; SC, Hartley ill; Derwent well. (CL II #389. See 1801:66 for TP's reply.) 55. Mar 25 From Keswick STC writes Godwin: Godwin's tragedy [Abbas, King of Persia]; STC's philosophical studies; "The Poet is dead Tn me— . ' * W has made him know that he is "no l^Fruman (DA 129-30) points out that these intensive studies were supposedly made "in the midst of his study of the German philosophers which yielded the 'philosophical iletters' to Josiah Wedgwood" (see 1801:31, 36, 37). Fruman jalso suggests that STC was probably not qualified to do minute scientific experiments at this time (see 1801:19). The work on Locke, Hobbes and Hume never appeared.. ■............... ; ■ .. ~.(18 01 r 251 Poet.” Recommendation of vol II of LB, and the Preface ; (GCL 66). "I should judge of a man' s heart and intellect, 'precisely according to the degree and intensity of admira tion with which he read these poems." Derwent has been inoculated against smallpox, remained well. STC "the slave of rheumatism," though presently somewhat better. (CL II #390.) 56. [Probably 1801, Mar 25] STC, nervous and in bed, is visited by and talks with W. [They probably discuss "jacobinieal pathos" in poetry.] STC sees beautiful prismatic colors when his eyes are shut. (CN I #925 and n; CL II #391; EY #158.) 57. Mar 26 STC [at Keswick] records a description from Bartram which he likens to W's mind, comparing it to a towering beech tree. (CN I #926 and n; William Bartram Travels 36. See CN I #218-22, 288 and ns.) SH, still at Grasmere, lays the first stone of her "seat," which STC [W, DW(?)] finish building Oct 10,. 1801 (see 1801:162). (STC copy in VCL of Matthison, Gedichte (Ziirich 1797), flyleaf; GW 123n.) ~ 58. Mar 27 W writes from Grasmere to Longman and Rees: Assumes STC's £30 debt to them for the money advanced him for "Christabel." [W evidently hopes to ease STC's mind and thus enable him to finish the poemi. W evidently carries the letter to Keswick when his part of it is finished.] (EY #156.) At Keswick, STC continues W's letter: STC's debt to W; his illness; "Christabel" publication (see GCL 68). (CL II #391.) 59. Mar 28 RS writes to STC from Lisbon: The success of RS's stay in Portugal in the collection of materials for his history; his work bn Thalaba. His health improved. His possible eventual emigration with STC. His projected visit to the Lake Country in Sept (see 1801:141) . The immediate threat of an invasion of Portugal. RS would like to winter at the Lakes and work on his history of Portugal. Der went's pagan name. (CS II, 136-40. See 1801:69.) 60. [1801, on or after Mar 28-before Apr 9] [Sometime between his bouts .of illness (he. is ill on. i ............ -.......-...........(1801) 252 • i i i I jMar 27, and again on Apr 9) STC, greatly improved, visits W iat Grasmere for an undetermined length of time, probably on jhis way to or from Carlisle.] (See 1801:58, 63, 65, 67.) j ! i 61. [1801J, Mar 29 JW writes DW: Sorry the W's are going to lose SH— J Isends his love— supposes she has left them by this time. I [JW evidently received an unpreserved letter this morning ifrom DWJ: DW made him "quite melancholy" about STC: "I j fear he will have had very bad health and it grieves me to j think he should be throwing himself away." Hartley Coler idge. (JWL #24.) | 62. Mar 31 j C. Lloyd writes Thomas Manning: Lloyd's negative evaluation of LB volume II. (LM 66-67; GCL 66.) 63. Apr 4 STC borrows fourteen books from the Carlisle Cathedral : Library. (DA 459, n25.) 64. Apr 6 Lamb writes. Robert Lloyd: "Coleridge was the man who first solemnly exhorted me to 'study' the works of Dr. i Jeremy Taylor..." (LL I #103.) 65. [1801, c Apr 9 (-Apr 23)] From [c Apr 9 to Apr 23] STC is sick in bed with gout and related problems. (CL II #394, 395.)H 66. Apr 9 ! i I W writes from Grasmere to John Taylor: W's [Mar 25] conversation with STC on "jacobinieal pathos" in poetry. (EY #158.) I TP writes STC: Apology for not writing; trouble in j the neighborhood concerning the price of food. Regards to W. A future letter will contain TP's opinion of LB and its I Preface. (Poole II, 42-43. See 1801:53, 54. See 1801:71 : for STC's reply. See also GCL 66.) •H*In his Apr 23 letter to Godwin, STC says that this is his first day up "after another long confinement of four- j teen Days." \----: r -.- ......-........ ' (1801) 253 I | ;67 . [1801, Apr 9] I JW writes MH from Portsmouth: Sorry about STC's health. (JWL #26.) " j ; W writes to TP: STC at Grasmere "a few days ago, in better health and spirits than I have seen him for some Itime (see 1801:60). He is a great man, and if God grant | him life will do great things." "Christabel" to be printed' by the Bulmerian Press (see GCL 68). (EY #157.) ! i 68. [1801, Apr 11] I STC at Keswick receives a letter from RS (see 1801:59)J (CL II #392.) 69. Apr 13 STC writes RS from Keswick: Received his letter "the evening before last" (see 1801:68). Expects RS soon. The Keswick area? RS and Edith should come to live at Greta Hall; STC’s health. (CL II #392. See 1801:110.) ! STC writes George Greenough: Greenough's recent visit I to Stowey during STC's absence (see 1801:5). The Keswick area; invitation for Greenough visit. "I write to you from : a bed of pain...I am seldom in health three days together." Thinks of visiting the Azores in the fall for a warmer cli- | mate. (CL II #393.) 70. [1801, Apr 17] DW writes from Grasmere to SH in Gallow Hill: STC is j better. (EY #160.) 71. Apr 18 STC writes TP from Keswick: State of England. STC's illness— "For the last ten days I have kept my Bed, ex ceedingly ill" with gout. In the fall he will contemplate leaving England for a better climate. (CL II #394. See 1801:66. See 1801:84 for TP's reply.) ! 72. [1801, Apr 13] W, DW receive word from STC that he is ill. (EY #160.) 73. [1801, Apr 19 (-Apr 27)] j W, DW go to Keswick to visit STC on [Apr 19.] They j leave [Apr 27 (see 1801:76).] STC is ill during the time of! j................ - ......... - ..- ......--- (1801) “2541 i . i I jtheir stay. (EY #160.) ■74. [1801.3 , Apr 22 ! JW writes from Portsmouth to DW: Received two letters j from her (unpreserved); "sorry to hear of poor Coleridge”? j recommends a warm climate for him, especially Saint Mi- j Jchael's in the Azores (see 1801:89). But it would be diffi-j cult to find accommodation for the whole family. (JWL #27. ) j 75. Apr 23 ■ • , ■ i I STC writes John Thelwall from Keswick: Congratulations ion Thelwall's new child; STC's opinions on Thelwall's pub- j lication and advertisement of his recent Poems (1801); STC's bad health— does not expect to live many years; Thelwall j should not use STC ' s name in his memoirs for the sake of i STC's wife and children. (CL XI #395.) 76. [1801, Apr 27J W, DW leave STC's today. (They have been visiting since [Apr 19]; see 1801:73). (EY #160.) i 77. Apr 28 From Keswick STC writes Godwin: Has received Godwin's j MS? STC's illness; would like to hear from Godwin; family well. (CL II #396.) ! 78. [1801J, Apr [29] DW writes MH: W, DW left STC's Mon evening (Apr 27— see 1801:76); with him "a week and a day" (since Apr 19— see 1801:73). STC's illness; the necessity of a climate j change. Expected visit from Hartley, STC; DW's opinion of SC: "her radical fault is want of sensibility and what can j such a woman be to Coleridge?.. .a sad fiddler faddler"; SH'b gate. (EY #160.) j 79. Apr 30 | RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn: RS's plan to pass the fall and possibly the winter in the Lake Country. (WL 147.): ; i 80. [1801, May 3] STC, [probably at Keswick,] is very ill. (CL II #397.)! 12The visit was apparently prompted by their sympathy | for STC's illness (see 1801:65) and domestic problems. j j(Moorman I, 509.) ! ■ ! 181. [1801], May 3 | ' ! JW writes DW: Further discussion of the Azores for I STC. (JWL #29. See 1801:74.) j ; • ! 1 82. May 4 j : ' ! STC is feeling better today. (CL II #400.) j STC writes HD from Keswick: Sending books for Dr. i iBeddoes. HD's lectures on galvanism. STC a bit concerned ! iabout RS. STC's illness— "yesterday I should have been in-j capable of writing you this scrawl? and tomorrow I may be as had." Still considering the Azores, except can't afford it ? j probably won't see HD this summer. (CL II #397. See 1801:74, 80 for JW's recommendation of the Azores for STC.) 83. May 6 RS writes to Charles Danvers from Portugal: "Coleridge [is] at the end of the world"— Bristol would suit RS better J than the Lakes, but he must spend the autumn there and in Wales, working on' Ma'doc. (WL 153.) ! STC writes RS from Keswick: STC's health; RS must j "spend as much of the summer and autumn with us" as he can? ! includes lines describing Hartley (conclusion to Part II of j "Christabel"— see GCL 80). (CL II #398.) ! i 84. May 7 (-May 15) | i STC, feeling somewhat improved, goes to Grasmere on May 7. (He remains till May 15. See 1801:87). (CL II j #400? EY #160.) TP writes to STC: A letter to raise his spirits; fi nancial worries are causing his illness? therefore TP's assurance that he will care for STC's family if the need j arises. Many suggestions for STC to do to help relieve his j mind. TP will not be able to go north this month, as he had planned (see 1801:22). (Poole II, 44-47. See 1801:71. ! See 1801:89 for STC's reply.) i 85. [1801, May 12] j STC, intending to return home from Grasmere today, I takes a walk in the afternoon and returns to Grasmere ill, | so does not return to Keswick. (CL II #400.) : ' I 86. [1801, May 13] STC remains at Grasmere ill. (CL II #400.) j 87. May 15 [-July 14 or 15] I 1 ! STC finally returns from Grasmere to Keswick the even ting of May 15, in a post chaise, still ill. Hartley stays j 'behind for some weeks attending the Grasmere village j ; school (Moorman I, 509). [STC apparently remains home tillj |July 14 or 15, when he leaves on a tour to visit the Hutch-i jinsons (see 1801:111).] (CL II #400.) ! | | 88. May 16 j I : I From Keswick STC writes Daniel Stuart: STC's illness | since January; his writing for Stuart. (CL II #399.) 89. May 17 | ; STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's health; taking j Ilaudanum on a consistent basis to relieve the suffering | (.see Cottle:Rec II, 157; CL II #400 nl, p. 731; 1800:244n) . j STC's recent visit to Grasmere (see 1801:84). If he does Inot sufficiently recover, he plans to go to the Azores (see 1801:74). (CL II #400.)13 90. May 20 STC writes HD from Keswick: A woman with whom T. R. Underwoodl4 is supposed to be in love. (Underwood wants ! information from STC, who is supposed to have known her be- ! fore.) HD and galvanism. STC's improved health; his con- ! cern for RS's return. (CL II #401.) ! 91. [1801, May 22] j W, DW write STC: Apology for not writing. Their care | of Hartley, who is staying with them. (EY #161.) ! i . i ; i 92. [Probably 1801, June 18] [STC, possibly visiting at Grasmere, may go to Ease- J dale, where he is impressed with the rocks and woods, the j view of the lake and church tower. Here he evidently sleeps, for awhile in the hollow of a rock.] (CN I #948, 949.) j i3There was probably no answer to this letter as such, j W's letter of [early July] to TP and the resulting diffi- I culty between TP and STC intervened (see 1801:107). j 14t w's travelling companion to France and Switzerland I in 1803 (CL I #401 nl, p. 733). I "(1801) 257' |93. [1801, June, before June 23] Samuel Rogers and Sharp visit STC at Keswick. (CN I j #961n; CL II #402,412,414; P. W. Clayden, Rogers and His j : Contempor aries I, 9-11.) [This may be the time too of j Clement Carlyon's "summer 1801” visit to STC at Keswick ! . (I, 101-02, 116-18), when Carlyon, STC, W, DW, ” ," and Wilkinson, a Keswick clergyman, go walking and dine on bacon and eggs at a farmhouse in the district.] 15 94. June 23 STC writes Godwin from Keswick: A succession of | visitors during the past three weeks (see 1801:93); STC ill! again and in bed; Godwin's "Pamphlet in answer to Dr Parr ! and the Scotch Gentleman"; 16 STC will return the MS "Fri day, with my criticisms." If he can raise the money, will i leave for the Azores "at the latter end of July."17 The beauty of Keswick area at this time. Sharp and Rogers have! been to visit. Family well. (CL II #402.) 95. [1801, c June 23] W writes Richard Wordsworth: STC's £30 debt to Long- ; man assumed by W. Expects to be repaid by STC shortly. (EY #162. See 1801:58.) 96. [1801, late June, probably c June 29] STC writes James Tobin from Keswick to postpone his planned month's visit for this summer, in view of STC's possible trip to the Azores. (CL II #403.) [Probably this night] STC has an attack of gout. (CL II #403.) 97. [1801, probably June 30] STC has-another attack of gout. (CL II #403.) l^The rest of the summer STC was either ill or on a trip to the Hutchinsons' farm at Bishop Middleham, so this seems the only reasonable time. 1 ^Thoughts occasioned by. .'.Dr . Parr's Spftal Sermon. . . j being a Reply to the Attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr . Mackintosh, the Author of an Essay on Population, and Others, 1801. •^STC, of course, does not go to the Azores. i ! '(1801) 258 : ( ! 98. [Probably 1801, June] STC feels that he has sunk from being an inventor, toj a mere discoverer. (CN I #950 and n.) | I ' i 99. [Probably between June 1801 and Aug 1803] j i i Hartley wishes for ant hills near home; STC comments j ;that his love of life is like a Brahmin's, and determines j to start his education with natural-history, following the j suggestion of David Williams (Lectures, 1789), based on Rousseau. (CN I #959 and n.) 1 I 100. [1801, July] | STC, [possibly noticing Derwent], observes that toothless infants have exceedingly expressive tongues. (CN I #960.) 101. [July 1] STC receives a letter from Josiah Wedgwood enclosing . £50, in view of STC's proposed trip to the Azores'. 18. [Pro-1 bably on this night] STC has another attack of gout. (CL II #403.) 102. [1801, probably July 2] STC writes Josiah Wedgwood from Keswick: He is bet ter; has given up the Azores plan (see 1801:101). Within two hours after sending the letter, he is ill again. (CL II #403.) 103. [1801, probably July 3J STC is once again ill with the gout, at night. (CL II #403.) 104. [1801, probably July 4] j STC is only a little better from his attack of gout. (CL II #403.) 105. July [5] STC writes TP from Keswick: Josiah Wedgwood's July l! letter and £50 draft (see 1801:101); STC very sick; defense’ of Keswick as a place to live; less expensive to go to the ; Azores' than to Devon or Cornwall. He will go to see the 18wedgwood had seen his recent letter toTobin (see | .......: ... ..... ......... ...... ....... ... . (1801) 259 i I . ' " ' I I Azores at the end of this month if he can. Proposes a plan; j to give out unfinished works to the booksellers to raise j j money, with promise to complete them upon his return. W's j 'plan to write to TP on this subject (see 1800:107). (CL Hi : #403.)19 | j106. July 6 Henry Crabb Robinson writes ' ' from Germany: j I Recommendation to become acquainted with the system of Spinoza: "Coleridge I heard became a convert to him in Germany." (E. J. Morley, Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany #14.) 1107. [1801, early July] W writes TP; STC's need for money to go to the Azores. (EY #163. See 1801:114 for TP's jreply.) 1108. [1801, July 8] STC writes Godwin from Keswick: Received a letter from Godwin this evening (unpreserved). Has returned God win' s tragedy by mail to London via Penrith this evening; STC's explanation of his symbols used in criticizing the ; play. Assures Godwin that there are sufficient accommoda- : tions in Saint Michael's in the Azores. Mrs. Inchbald, Dryden, Virgil. Tobin's cancelled visit. (CL II #404.) 109. July 10 The Southeys return from Portugal; stay with the Dan-' vers in Bristol for several weeks. (CL II #405n; CS II/ 149.) ! 110. July 11 RS writes from Bristol to STC at Keswick: RS arrived! Bristol yesterday (see 1801:109); found STC's letters: !"we may yet live under one roof." The possibility of RS going to Consantinople as secretary to Drummond, the am bassador. If he goes, STC must join him: "so no more of the Azores..." If RS does not leave too soon, he will visit STC at the Lakes, unless STC comes to Bristol (see 1801:141). STC's poems, third edition, in the press: why 1800:96). j j l^For a good discussion of this financial problem be-; tween STC, W and TP, see Moorman I, 510-11. ~ (1801) 260 not a second volume? RS remembers "Christabel," "Three | Graces" as "the very consummation of poetry" (see GCL 94, 68) . Encouragement to STC to work. The glories of Con- ! stantinople; RS's enduring friendship for STC. "Is it not ; quite clear that you and I were meant for some better star, I and dropped, by mistake, into this world of pounds, shil- j ; lings, and pence?" (CS II, 149-51. See 1801:69.) j I 111. [1801, probably July 14 or 15 (-at least by Sept 7, j ; probably Aug 24 or 25)] I STC leaves Keswick [probably either July 14 or 15] j ; for a trip to visit the three Hutchinson brothers. [He j possibly spends one night (the 15th?) at Bowes.] (Arrives ; home [at least by Sept 7 and probably sooner, after Aug 23,j 'possibly the 24th or 25th (see 1801:138). He evidently | sees SH while on this trip also, as CN I #973A is in her hand.]) (CN I #970-79 and ns, #982, 973A; CL II #411.)20 j |112. [1801, July 16 and/or 17 (-July 27 or 28)] | STC arrives Bishop Middleham, County Durham, at I George Hutchinson's farm, [July 16 and/or 17 (see 1801:111 | n) ] ; (Stays until [probably July 27 or 28] , when he leaves j for Stockton-on-Tees. SH is probably here too.) (CN I #970 and n. See 1801:120.) | 113. [Probably after July 16 or 17, 1801 summer or fall] ! i STC writes "To Asra" (PW I, 361-62), and [possibly also "Love's Sanctuary" (PW I, 362).] (GCL 81 a,b.) 114. July 21 i At Bishop Middleham STC receives, [probably forwarded! from Keswick,] a letter from RS in Bristol (see 1801:110). i 20STC says he arrived at Bishop Middleham "July 16 17th," which is rather difficult to interpret. Possibly J ; the note was made later, and he forgot the exact date of : i his arrival, or possibly he arrived at midnight and was therefore uncertain exactly which day it was. Anyway, Bishop Middleham is eighty miles from Keswick. STC could I have made the trip in two days, or possibly three. On the I return trip it appears he made the same distance with only j ione recorded stop, at Bowes (CN I #974n, 976, 979, 982). i Possibly he did the same on the trip out, spending the | night of the 15th at Bowes and arriving Bishop Middleham | i late the next day, although there is no direct evidence ; that he did so. (1801)261| TP writes to STGS Declines W's suggestion that he | supply funds for STC's travels en toto, though he is wil- ! ling to supply £20 in cooperation with others. His concern ! for STC's health of body and mind. (Poole II, 6i-63. See | 1 1801:107. See 1801:144 for STC's reply. See Poole II, 52-1 ! 53 for a discussion.) j i 115. July 22 i From Bishop Middleham, STC writes RS: Relief to know; that RS is safe? STC's convalescence. RS should come to j Keswick. Alterations of Osorio (GCL 23). "I have no heart I for poetry." STC is now near Durham for the purpose of j reading Duns Scotus. If RS comes, STC will meet him at | Liverpool. (CL II #405.) i 116. July 24 [-July 26] j i STC goes from Bishop Middleham into Durham to use the! Cathedral library (see 1801:117). He remains until [pro bably July 26.] (CN I #970 and n; CL II #406.) ! 117. July 25 In Durham, STC is having trouble getting books at thej Cathedral Library. STC writes RS from Durham: He will return to Bishop ! Middleham tomorrow. [On SH] : "...the woman is so good a woman that I have seldom indeed seen the like of her." Plan for living at Pinney's estate on Saint Nevis Island in! the West Indies. The climate of Keswick. (CL II #406.) ! RS writes from Bristol to STC at Keswick: "In about ; ten days we shall be ready to set forward for Keswick"; will not winter there because of the climate. Uncertainty | about the time of his being sent to Europe: the appoint- j ;ment is fairly certain; probable destination Palermo or Naples. The necessity of his current neglect of the his- j itory of Portugal. The third edition of STC's Poems. Ques-j tions whether W will forgive "the stimulant tale of Thala- I ba." Madoc's premature publication. RS's dreams of Kes wick and fellowship with STC. (CS II, 151-54; GCL 94.) 118. [July 26] I STC leaves Durham on [probably July 26] ; returns to ! Bishop Middleham; walks; is ill on arriving at the farm. (CL II #406, 407)) ; ;119. July 26 RS writes to John May from Bristol.: His. plans, to (1801) 262 'visit STC at Keswick soon and work on Madoc. O0L 165.) i ’ 1 120. [1801, probably July 27 or 28] i STC, [SH] leave the Hutchinson farm at Bishop Middle ham [probably July 27 or 28,] arriving Stockton-on-Tees j [probably the 27th or 28th.j21 jl21. [1801, probably July 29 (-July 31)J STC, [SH] leave Stockton-on-Tees on horseback [pro- ibably July 29, expecting to reach Gallow Hill the same night. (For some reason he does not explain, they do not reach Gallow Hill till July 31.)]22 (CN I #970.) 122. July 31 (-Aug 2) STC, [SH] arrive Gallow Hill near Scarborough, at Tom Hutchinson's farm July 31. (STC stays till Aug 9, when he 21It is only ten miles from Bishop Middleham to Stockton-on-Tees, and would have taken STC only part of a ;day to get there. Since from CN I #970 he probably left Stockton on the 29th for Gallow Hill, he would have had to iarrive at Stockton before that date, probably at least by the 27th or 28th, to have had any time at all with John Hutchinson. Therefore the latest he could have left Bishop Middleham would have been sometime on the 28th. Since he probably returned to Bishop Middleham from Durham on the 26th, he probably did not leave Bishop Middleham before the 27th. John Hutchinson was a banker in Stockton-on-Tees. 22£jj j #970 says, "Went into Durham 24th— set off on Horse back leaving Stockton with an intention of reaching Gallow Hill on the 29— arrived there July 31." It is not clear whether STC and SH left Stockton on the 29th, intend ing to reach Gallow Hill the same day, on whether they left sometime earlier, expecting to reach Gallow Hill on the '29th. Since Stockton-on-Tees is only fifty miles from Gal low Hill, it is not likely that STC would have left much ’ before the 28th and expect to reach Gallow Hill on the 29th; in fact, it is more likely he did not leave till the 29th, expected to reach Gallow Hill the same day, but found that he had not left himself enough time to complete the fifty miles, possibly ran into another difficulty also and so lost another day, and did hot arrive at Gallow Hill un til July 31. r ........ .................... . ....... ........ (1801) 263: I j | i j leaves for the return trip home.) (CN I #970, 971, 974. i j See 1801:127.) i ! i | 123. Aug 1 | ! i STC, at Gallow Hill, receives a letter from RS (see I I 1801:117), forwarded from Bishop Middleham. | ; STC writes RS: His return to Bishop Middleham from J Durham (see 1801:118); his illness; the baths around Gal- j low Hill. RS should stay at Grasmere, not go on to Keswick when STC isn't there. STC will return to Bishop Middleham ! "in ten days," stay there two days, then go to Keswick, ar-j riving the 15th or 16th of Aug. (CL II #407.)23 : ' ! 124. CL801, between Aug 1 and Aug 15] STC writes "On Revisiting the Sea-Shore." (PW I, 359-60; GCL 82.) ! 125. Aug 2 STC writes Francis Wrangham from Gallow Hill: Ar- j rived here Friday afternoon (July 31); wishes for a happy marriage for Wrangham. To remain at Gallow Hill "a week at the farthest," then return to Keswick to see RS. (CL II #408.) William Taylor writes to RS from Norwich: Greetings ; to STC; Taylor's correspondence with him. Taylor looked ! for him in London unsuccessfully (see 1799:171); STC had left for Westmoreland. Taylor pained to hear of STC's ill ! . health. (WTM I, 374-75.) 126. Aug 3 RS writes to STC from Bristol: RS's lack of success ! on a price for Madoc; ensuing financial problems respecting! his trip to Keswick. STC's West India plan "vile"; RS pre-| ■fers Italy. The bad effect on HD of his moving to London, j RS longs to be able to leave for Keswick. (CS II, 154-57.); STC left for Bishop Middleham probably Aug 9, ar- j rived the 11th; did not leave until probably the 23rd. j There is no direct indication that SH went with him back to! Bishop Middleham, or that she returned alone earlier, but j the suggestion is strong, since STC was so evidently unablej to pull himself away for twelve days, when he had intended | !to remain only two, and when he believed that RS was await-; :ing him momentarily in Keswick. Were the sulphur baths his; only reason for staying? (See 1801:130.) i I (1801) 264 ] f i 1 12.7. {18 01 ,] Aug 9 1 ' j ! STC, [SH] leave Gallow Hill Aug 9 (.see 1801:123n) . [They] spend the night [possibly at Kirkby Moorside or Helmsley, or at Thirsk (see 1801:128n).] (CN I #974.) 128. [1801,] Aug 10 STC, [SH] pass through Ingleby, on [their] way back to Bishop Middleham. [They possibly spend the night in Ingleby.] (CN I #974 and h; CL II #490.)24 129. Aug 11 [-probably Aug 23] STC, [SH] arrive Bishop Middleham Aug 11. STC stays till [probably Aug 23.] (CL II #409; CN I #976.) 130. [Aug 12] STC writes RS from Bishop Middleham: Advice on the sale of Madoc; HD; Milton and Sir Isaac Newton; sea bath ing; will now "stay a week at Dinsdale and bathe twice a day in the sulphur baths there"; arrived from Scarborough "last night." Encloses "On Revisiting the Sea-Shore" (PW ;I, 359-60; GCL 82). (CL II #409.) 131. [1801, Aug 15] STC goes to the sulphur baths at Dinsdale, twelve miles south of Bishop Middleham; returns feeling very well. (CL II #410.) 132. [1801, Aug 16J STC is ill at Bishop Middleham. (CL II #410.) 133. Aug 17 RS writes Charles Biddlecombe from Bristol: Departs for Keswick "about Thurs next" (Aug 20; see 1801:137). (NL 24There are several Inglebys in this district, north of Thirsk; Ingleby Ho is the only one directly on the main Galcbow Hiil-Thirsk-Stockton-on-Tees road, so it is probably the one referred to here. Ingleby Ho is some sixty-seventy miles from Gallow Hill, depending whether one goes through : ; Thirsk or cuts across the moors by Kirkby Moorside and Helmsley— where, by the way, STC [and SH] may have spent the night of the 9th. Otherwise [they] probably spent it f .. .".... '. ''..... ' .. (1801) 2651 i 25 I i 247.)25 I : . i | 134. [1801, Aug 17] i STC, still at Bishop Middleham, remains ill. (CL II #410.) : I 135. Aug 18 j ; j STC begins to recover from his illness. (CL II j #410.) 136. Aug 19 ! STC is much improved. Prom Bishop Middleham he writes Joanna Hutchinson and Isabella Addison, [who are j evidently at Gallow Hill.] The letter is in rime. STC's illness and recovery. (CL II #410 .) RS writes Grosvenor Charles Bedford from Bristol: Attempting to secure means to visit STC at the Lakes. Rec-i ommendation of LB volume II. (CS II, 158-60.) 137. Aug 23 ■ T7 *" [STC probably leaves Bishop Middleham,] travels to Bowes, [probably spending the night at Bowes.] He notices j the moon and the striking of the church clock in Bowes at ! 11:00 p.iru' (CN I #976; CL II #409.) 138. [1801, probably Aug 24 or 25, or at least by Sept 7] ! STC arrives home at Keswick [probably Aug 24 or 25, j or at least by Sept 7.] (CN I #979, 982; CL II #411.)2° in Thirsk. j 25 The Southeys did not arrive at Keswick till pro- j bably Sept 2. j 26 i Bowes is approximately fifty-five miles from Kes- sick. Leaving Bowes the morning of the 24th, STC could | definitely have arrived home by the night of the 25th, even; possibly by the night of the 24th. If he was still on the j road the night of the 24th, he probably spent the night at i Appleby or Penrith, though Penrith would have been almost j too close home for him to have spent the night there. At j any rate, he was home at least by Sept 7, the date of CL II! #411. ! j (180ir 266 ] ; * i 1X39. [1801, summer or fall, probably after Aug 24 or 25, | ; certainly before Dec 4] j STC writes "Ode to Tranquillity." (PW I, 360-61; GCLi 83.) j 140. [Probably between Aug and Nov 1801 or Mar and July ; 1802] STC, SH record the following notebook entries: I a. (STC): A passage from the 1692 edition of Thomas; Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae, 68, which STC uses j variatim as an epigraph for AM in the (1817) SL. The pas- ; sage deals with the existence and orders of demons and an- i gels. (CN I #1000 (H) and n.) ! b. (STC): A paraphrase from Henry More's "A Brief Discourse of Enthusiasm" #xlv, xxxv, xvi, liv, in Philo sophical Writings B 31-32, 42, 11-12, 28-29. The second passage in the entry deals with the tendency of the melan- ; choly nature, when it becomes enthusiastic, to believe that; its inspiration is from the Spirit of God, and is quoted in; BL II, 31. (CN I #1000 (I) and n.) c. (SH): A transcription of a passage from Daniel Sennertus' De Chymicorum cum Aristotelis and Galenicis Con-1 sensu ac Dissensu, caput V, "De Nominibus nouis...Paracel- j cis.1 1 1 The passage concerns the precise use of terms, an idea that appears in BL II, 22, 228. (CN I #1000 (C) and n; 1000 (A)n. See SC n, BL (1847) II, 32.) 141. [1801, probably Sept 2 (-the middle of Sept)] ; RS and Edith arrive at STC's [probably Sept 2.] (RS stays till [the middle of Sept,] when he takes a walking tour with Wynn over the Welsh country of Madoc (see 1801: 152). (NL 248; CL II #411.) 142. [1801, Sept, probably between Sept 3 and 9] RS writes from Keswick to Henry Herbert Southey: Ar-i rival at STC's "Wednesday last" (probably Sept 2— see CL II| #411; 1801:141). RS's opinion of the Lake Country. (NL ! 248.) 143. Sept 6 RS writes from Keswick to Grosvenor Charles Bedford: j Prefers southern Europe to the Lake Country. In a few days! will tour Wales with Wynn. (CB II 161-63.) j ; ........................ '.... (1801)..267 : 144. Sept 7 ■ ■!' STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's financial affairs, j relative to W's recent letter to TP (see 1801:107,114); TP's letter to the Wedgwoods regarding STC as companion for TW to Sicily. STC was hurt by TP'S, apparent unwillingness to help him financially. STC's relations with his family; his ! health; has written John Pinney regarding staying in his ; house on St. Nevis Island. RS and Edith at Keswick; W in Scotland for Basil Montagu's wedding. (CL II #411. See i Poole II, 61-63; EY #163; DA 571-72, n23.)27 145. [1801, Sept, probably before Sept 14J STC records the following notebook entries: | a. An observation that SC bases her ideas of pain ■and pleasure totally on the opinions of others, having no sense of them in herself. He finds her "uncommonly cold in; her feelings of animal love." Also mentions Edith Southey, | SC's sister, who is visiting at this time (see 1801:141). (CN I #979 and n. Cf. CL II #467.) b. A possibly significant entry recalling an exper ience he must have shared with W, DW, MH and SH, as these | are the initials following the entry. K. Coburn relates this entry to a contrast between the peaceful Dove Cottage circle and STC's own turbulent homelife described in the preceding entry. (CN I #980 and n. Cf. "Inscription for ; a Fountain on a Heath," (PW I, 381; GCL 92) .28 c. A note recalling what is probably a natural well I at Upper Stowey, associating the memory with SH, even though she did not share the experience. He remarks how 27Qip received this letter just at the time of his mother's death. For STC's letter of consolation, see 1801:: 152. ! 28The experience probably did not take place in Sept 1801, as STC was not together with these four friends dur- ; ing this time— at least, there is no direct evidence that he was. DWJ for Oct 10 says that he was leaving Grasmere on that day for Keswick, so he had apparently been there for sometime before that, though there is no indication howl long. DWJ 77 also says that STC left "after we had built Sara's seat," which may or may not mean thait SH was actual-; ly there at that time. There is no suggestion that MH was I there. She did not arrive at STC's until Oct 23 (see 1801:; 175) . 1 . . . . . . . . ■ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1801) 268 j | . j isuch things can be so real to the eye of memory. (CN I j j#981 and n; "Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath": PW I, ; |381, GCL 92; "A. Day-Dream": PW I, 385, GCL 79; "The Pic ture" : PW I, 37-71, GCL 9.0.) ; 146. Sept 14 I ; I Derwent's first birthday; STC notices the northern j lights as especially fine. He is home at Keswick, as he notices the lights moving "from over Basserithwaite behind j Skiddaw." (CN I #932.) 147. Sept 15 ! "On Revisiting the Sea-Shore" first published. (MP Sept 15, 1801; PW I, 359-60; GCL 82.) j 148. [1801,] Sept 15 STC notes and records the changing shapes of the moonj as it sets, possibly inspiring a verse recorded in SH's i private Keepsakes notebook, Called by the Hutchinson family "Sara's Poets." (CN I #983 and n. See CN I #1193ri for the; text of the poem.) 149. [Probably 1801, between Sept 15 and 18] STC records the following notebook entries: a. A reflection of his recent visit to Bishop Mid dleham, detailing how he attempts to reduce abstruse ideas ; to intelligibility, for the sake of "the infinitely beloved1 Darling"— [certainly SH] . (CN I #984 and n.) b. A remark on how STC is able to see SH's face vividly when in bed at night, indeed to imagine her as an actual part of his being. (CN I #985.) c. STC cannot imagine SH's face half so well when he! tries as when it just comes to him, so he has given up try-! j ing. (.CN I #986.) d. [RS probably leaves c this time on his walking tour through Wales with C. W. Williams Wynn (see 1801:152).! Before he leaves, STC evidently has a rather unpleasant discussion with him]: The CN entry compares RS to a blind man, to the benefit of the latter. (CN I #987 and n.) . . i e. A note dealing with the combination of knowledge ; and feeling which STC ascribes to Shakespeare in BL II, 19—| 20. The note is [possibly based on George Campbell, D.D. ! (1801)' 269 ! Lecture on Ecclesiastical History, to which is added an es- j say on Christian temperance and self-denial...with some 1 ; account of the life and writings of the author, by Rev. j i G. S. Leith (2 volumes, 1800) I, 277-7^? cf. also Jeremy i ! Taylor, Sermon VI, "Via Intelligentiae," of the Supplemen- i tary Sermons (Heber VIII 363-91).] (CN I #989 and n.) j ; I | 150. Sept 18 | i STC records a CN entry to the effect that he must | | have taken laudanum on this day? also [a possible reference ; to DW, associating her with a poem and a dream. Does he j possibly see her on this day?’ (see 1801:145 bn.)] (CN I i #990.) j 151. [Probably 1801, Sept 18] STC records the following notebook entries: i a. A tonic for anemia. (CN I #992.) b. A record of the characteristics of [James Mackin-! ; tosh, probably made during Mackintosh's visit to STC at Keswick c this time.] (CN I #993, 995 and n. Cf. 1801: 173.) | 152. Sept 19 STC writes TP from Keswick: Consolation on the death of TP's mother. (CL II #412. TP's reply has not been pre-: served, but in it TP [evidently asks counsel on the order- i ing of his future life.] For STC's reply, see 1801:159.) STC writes Daniel Stuart: The lines from RS's Tha- ! laba that should appear as an extract in MP. Request for ; Stuart to send MP for the next quarter to SH. Family well; expecting RS, [who is on a walking tour of Wales with Wynn, having left his wife at STC's,] in a fortnight. (CN II #413; NL 247 nl.) 153. Sept 22 I i STC writes Godwin frmm Keswick: The giving up of the! schemes to go abroad or to the Azores. Godwin's recent j pamphlet (see 1801:94n); STC's opinion. The scheme to stay! at Pinney's house on Saint Nevis? if this fails, STC may go! I to London and write for MP— "If I come, I come alone.1 1 | Suggestions of domestic disharmony; Hartley ill; W still in- Scotland (see 1801:144). (CL II #414.) ' i 154. [1801 c Sept 27] I i - STC writes Daniel Stuart:Has been ill; his writing j (1801)2701 |for MP; may come to London. (CL II #415.) i - ' | 155. [1801, end of Sept or early OctJ Lamb writes Thomas Manning: A report that STC is j i"under the influence of a cold vanity," and slandering j others behind their back. (LL I #110.) j ; 156. [Probably fall 1801, probably between Apr and Nov] STC records a note, [evidently referring to himself,] about a rudderless mind adrift on a dark and windless sea. K. Coburn speculates that this is in the autumn of 1801, the time of STC's open domestic ruptures (see 1801:145a;y 153, 173). (CN I #932 and n? cf. CL I #163.) | , i 157. Oct 2 C. Lloyd writes Thomas Manning: "Southey has been spending some time at Keswick with Coleridge— ." (LM 69.) ! 158. [1801, c Oct 3 (-probably Oct 7)] j RS returns to Keswick [c Oct 3] from his walking tour ; through Wales with Wynn. (He stays till [probably Oct 7,] when he leaves Keswick for Dublin.) (CL II #413. See i 1801:161). 159. Oct 5 STC receives a letter from TP (unpreserved) . (See ! 1801:152.) STC answers TP from Keswick: Advice to TP; STC's j plan to spend the fall and winter with the Wedgwoods, Pin- : ney and TP, and "possibly a week or two at Ottery," and to i go to Pinney's house on Saint Nevis in the spring— and re- ! main there for a year, SC and the children staying at Kes- j wick.29 Attempts to soothe TP's feelings— but talks about j the narrowing and hardening influence of wealth. RS leaves 1 Wed (Oct 7) for Ireland: appointed private secretary to i Corry, the Irish Chancellor. STC family well. (CL II ! #416.)30 | 29It is worth remarking that STC goes neither to Eu- : rope, nor to the Azores, nor to the Pinneys' house on Saint j Nevis in the spring of 1802. I : ■ | 30TP's replies have not been preserved, but he is in- j dignant and hurt at STC's remarks on his wealth (Poole II, I 53)i Still they remain friends: STC spends Dec 28-Jan 20 i j ~ (1801)271: j j i 160. [1801, between Oct 5 and 10] I I i STC goes to Grasmere to visit the W's. (CL II #416; j | DWJ 77.)31 I ; I ; 161. [1801, Oct 7] j ; i RS leaves Keswick for Ireland. (CL II #416.) ! : i 162. Oct 10 | DW, [W, STC, SH?] build SH's seat. STC returns to Keswick from Grasmere afterwards. (DWJ I, 77.)32 i ; 163. Oct 11 [-c Oct 25]; (first week of Nov) i RS sails for Dublin Oct 11. (He stays two weeks and j returns to Keswick for Edith [c Oct 25.] They settle in London by the first week of Nov.) (NL 247 nl; see 1801: • • i 164. [Oct 15 (-Oct 19, 1801)] STC arrives at the Luffs'33 while W, DW are eating ; dinner there. [He apparently goes home with them to Gras- ! mere, stays till Oct 19.] (DWJ I, 77; see 1801:169.) on a long visit to TP's at Nether Stowey (see 1801:237), and meanwhile his letters to TP continue: see 1801:173, 179, 219. 3]^here is just a possibility that SH may be at Gras mere during this time; K. Coburn says that DW was expecting her in Sept (CN I #1000 (A) n), and she records on Oct 10 the building of "Sara's seat" (see 1801:162). (The first : statement is on Coburn's authority only. There is no DWJ ; for Dec 24, 1800-Oct 9, 1801, and there are no W letters between early July and c Nov 21, 1801; see EY #163, 164). i 32STC records a detailed description of the building of the seat, of which "Sara had layed the first stone so ! long back as Thursday March 26 1801," on the fly-leaf of his copy of Matthison's Gedichte (VCL). (See GW 123n.) 33 "Captain and Mrs. Luff, friends of the Clarksons, lived on the south side of Patterdale." The W's sometimes j stayed with them (DWJ I, 413-19) and introduced STC to I them. (Moorman I, 559.) r — "(1801) 272 j S 165. Oct 16 RS writes from Dublin to Edith S. at Keswick: Sends his love to STC. (CS II, 171.) |166. Oct 16 ! i RS writes from Dublin to STC: RS's opinion of beau- j tiful Ireland. Lamb's play John Woodville. RS's lowered I opinion of HD. (CS II, 171-73.) | 167. [Oct] 16 STC, at Dove Cottage, is not well. (DWJ I, 77.) 168. Oct 17 ■ i [W, STC,] DW walk into Easedale. STC not well after dinner. (DWJ I, 77.) 169. [Oct] 19 STC goes home from Grasmere to Keswick. (DWJ I, 11.) i 170. Oct 19 STC observes the light yellow of the ash tree leaves ; on the Greta, reflecting on the river "like a painter's sun! shine." (CN I #996.) j 171. Oct 20 STC records this day as his birthday; in reality he was not twenty-nine until Oct 21. The first snow of the season falls on Skiddaw and Grisedale Pike on this day. (CN I #997 and n, #6n; CL II #417.) 172. [1801, after Oct 20] Henry Crabb Robinson writes to Thomas Robinson from j Germany: HCR called on Schiller at Weimar, spoke to him of; STC's translation of Wallenstein. Schiller has a high opinion of STC; says he is "a man of genius," though he | made "some ridiculous mistakes" in the translation. (HCR 1 Diary I, 73.) 173. Oct 21 STC writes RS [probably from Keswick]: Keswick in the snow. After RS's arrival from Ireland STC will move , south till spring. Will go with RS to London, then to TP'sj : ............. '... -.. (1801) 273] i ■ : i I | or the Wedgwoods'; very sick twice within the last week | ! (see 1801:167, 168); marital problems; contemplated separa-j :tion; the indissolubility of marriage. HD. Includes "a icouple of Sapphic Verses translated in my way from Stol- ! berg" (PW II, 979-80; GCL 84).34 (CL II #417.) j Writes TP: Explanation of STC's hesitance to give j • I advice. Mackintosh has been two days at Keswick (see 1801 : j :151 b). (CL II #418.) : j j174. Oct 22 At 6:30 p.m. STC observes the mountains out his j window at Keswick— they are all black and obscure except Swinside; sees also two "Moon Rainbows." (CN I #999.) 175. [1801, Oct 23] MH arrives at STC's. (CN I #999.) 176. [Probably 1801, Oct 23] [STC has evidently read Joseph Adam's pamphlet, "A Guide to the Island of Maderia, with an account of Funchal,| and instructions to those who resort thither for their Health," and is thinking of going to Maderia. K. Coburn says, "He asked for an introduction to Adams through Adams's sister, Mrs. Matthew Coates of Bristol, and evi dently obtained it, for it was Adams who advised Coleridge to put himself under the care of Dr. Gillman."] (CN I #1000 and n. See L I, 442 and n; CL II #529.) 177. [1801, c Oct 25] RS returns from.Ireland to Keswick [c Oct 25] and takes Edith with him to London. He is certainly at Keswick; by Oct 29, when he writes C. W. Williams Wynn from there. (NL 247 nl, p. 253.) 178. [1801, Oct 28] j STC, out walking at Keswick, runs a thorn into his leg. (CL II #419.) 179. Oct 31 STC writes TP from Keswick: Received two letters from TP (unpreserved). STC leaves Keswick "Saturday next" j (Nov 7) for London (see 1801:185); will stay there ten days; at most, then to Stowey via the Bridgewater Mail. Will ; 34See DA 32 for the plagiarism involvedinthese ....... " ......................................................................" (1801) 274 i stay with TP, Wedgwood, Pinney and at Ottery "till the last days of March"— at least two months with TP. STC's im- j proved health; trouble from the thorn in his leg (see 1801:; 178); his ability to bear pain. (CL II #419.) j STC writes HD: He is planning to be in London Nov j 11, stay there a fortnight (see 1801:189). Requests to | stay with HD or RS while there. Will go south from Lon- ; don— if his wounded leg will permit. (CL II #420.) ! 180. [1801, probably Nov 1 (-Nov 2)] j RS and Edith leave Keswick for London [probably on Nov 1. (They probably arrive Nov 2.)] (ND 253.) j 181. Nov 1 ! Hartley wears his first breeches and dances for joy, j though "eager and solemn Joy," says STC. (CN I #1101.) \ 182. [Probably late 1801] j Derwent comes begging for a kiss; STC notices Hartley down by the river, goes to him, and Hartley tells STC what | he is thinking about...the things he likes and the things he doesn't. (MS fragment, DCP, STC letter to SH; CN I ! #923n.) 183. [Nov 6 (-Nov 9)] ; STC arrives at the W's in Grasmere on [probably Nov 6,] returns to Keswick [Nov 9.] (DWJM 57. See 1801: 184).35 184. [Nov 9] STC returns from Grasmere to Keswick. W, DW, MH walk; with him, arrive just before dark. DW and MH sit in STC's I room awhile. DW says, "We enjoyed ourselves in the study lines. | 33The DWJ passage for Nov 5 through part of the 9th ! has been torn out. Portions of it are recovered from C. W.'s Memoirs, vol. I, p. 166. See also DWJM Preface, j viii. (It is probable that MH arrived at Grasmere Nov 6 or! 7— DWJM 57 nl— although Moorman I, 516 n2 says Nov 8. MH stays till the middle of Jan 1802-— Moorman I, 519.) j [ ' " (1801) 275 ! land were at home.1 1 (DWJ I, 57. j I STC writes RS from Keswick: STC's leg is not healing] iHe leaves tomorrow morning for Eusemere and the Clarksons';! :SC and children already there; will leave Eusemere at leastj I by Friday (see 1801:185). RS to communicate with Stuart j for STC. Hartley's breeching: "If my wife loved me, and ij my wife, half as well as we both love our children, I :should be the happiest man alive— -but this is not— will not! be— ." (CL II #421.) i 185. [1801, Nov 10] (-Nov 13); [1802, Mar 19] j DW burns herself on STC's Aquafortis on [Nov 10.] j STC leaves Keswick for Eusemere and the Clarksons'. W, DW,j MH return to Grasmere. (DW says, "Poor C. left us, and we ; came home together...C. had a sweet day for his ride." She! thinks of him much, worries aboht him.) (STC stays at j Eusemere till Nov 13th, when he leaves for Penrith; see ! 1801:187.) This time before returning home, he spends the i ’winter in London and the New Year with TP at Stowey. He does not return to Keswick until [Mar 19, 1802 (see 1802: 159).] (DWJ I, 79, 127; CL II #421; CN I #1002n, 1020.) 186. [Nov 11] i DW says she "put aside dearest C.'s letters"— [she must be re-reading old correspondence from him, because she! misses him.] (DWJ I, 79.) j 187. Nov 13 [-Nov 14; Nov 15] STC leaves the Clarksons' at 6:30 a. m. on Nov 13 for; Penrith, where he arrives 9:00 a. m. He remains vJith SH atj Penrith until [Nov 14)] when he leaves for London, arriving; there [the 15th.] [SH probably does some transcribing for ; him during this time. (See CN I #1007-10 and ns, #1002n, #1003 and n.)] (CN I #1020, 1002n; Godwin (Paul) II, 83.) j 188. [1801, Nov 14]; Nov 15 i STC leaves Penrith for London [probably on Nov 14.] He arrives in London the day following (see 1801:189). (CN; I #1002n; Godwin (Paul) II, 83.) 36"we learn from STC's letter to Southey dated 9 No- j vember (see 1801:184) that Mrs. C. and the children were I staying with the Clarksons at Eusemere. This accounts for j the comfortable stay of the Wordsworths at Greta Hall, freej from the unfriendly presence of Mrs. C." (DWJM 57 n2.) ! |...... (1801) 276 i i 1189. Nov 15 (-Dec 26) ! | STC arrives in London Nov 15, [evidently at RS's | lodgings, though he does not move in there till the 18th ; (see CN I #1024n, 1002n). Where he stays in the interim (Nov 15-17) is not known.] (STC spends the time in London ! j writing for MP; stays till Dec 26, when he leaves for | Nether Stowey. See 1801:235.) (CN I #1002n; Godwin (Paul); ill, 83; CL II #422.) DW receives a letter from SH on Nov 15. (DWJ I, 80.) 190. Nov 16 DW says she is going to write to STC, SH. "Poor C!" I She hopes he was in London yesterday (see 1801:189). (DWJ j I, 80.) ! 191. [1801, probably Nov 17 or 18] j Lamb writes Robert Lloyd: "... Coleridge is in town..." (LL I #116.) 192. Nov 18 [-Nov 25] STC moves in with RS on Nov 18, though he has been in; London since the 15th. (He remains with RS till [Nov 25,] | when he moves in with the Howells at Covent Garden, ar ranged for him by Daniel Stuart.)37 (CN I #1002n, #1024 and n; L I, 366n; CL II #422. See 1801:200.) i i 193. [1801, Nov 19] ! STC writes Godwin from RS's lodging in London: Mis- ! ■ erably uncomfortable; not expecting to remain long in Lon- ; don; will possibly breakfast with Godwin tomorrow at i0:00 I a. m.; will see Lamb this evening, possibly Godwin also. ; (CL II #422.) [STC probably sees Lamb, possibly Godwin also in the j evening.] j RS writes Charles Danvers:JB "Coleridge is here... j his stay depends upon his inclination, and that is the most; 37Stuart said later, "I took a first floor for him in | King Street, Covent Garden, at my tailor's, Howell's, whosej wife was a cheerful good housewife, of middle age, who I knew would nurse Coleridge as kindly as if he were her son j ..." (Gentleman's Magazine, May 1838, p. 487.) ; . I 3®A11 I have been able to discover about Charles Dan- I vers is that he was a close Bristol friend of RS's (see ! !....... ........' ..' .'...... ~r ...' .... * - " ■ .(1801) 277 j ■ unsteady of all things." (NL 255.) ! 194. [1801, Nov 20] N j ! ! j [STC possibly has breakfast with Godwin, if he has not seen him the night before.] (CL II #422.) 1 I ;195. [Nov] 20 W, DW receive "chearful [sic] letters" from STC, SH. (DWJ I, 81.) 196. [Nov] 22 | ; W, DW write to STC; send their letter "by the boy." (DWJ I, 81.) 197. Nov 23 Godwin visits RS, STC, advises STC. (Godwin (MS diary).) 198. Nov 24 Godwin has tea with STC. (Godwin (MS diary).) 199. [Nov] 24 W, DW receive a note from SC— STC very ill. (DWJ I, 83.) 200. [1801, c Nov 25] STC writes SC [probably from RS's lodging]: He is well; moves today into Number 10 King Street, Covent Gar den; may not stay more than ten days; may go to Cornwall with TW for three months. Misses his children. (CL II #423.) ' STC moves [probably on this day] in with the Howells |in Covent Garden. (L I, 366n; CN I #1024n; Daniel Stuart, Gentleman's Magazine, May 1838, p.487.) 201. Nov 25 ! ; DW writes STC. (DWJ I, 85.) |202. [Probably between Nov 25, 1801 and Jan 25, 1802] STC records the following notebook entries: (1797:95) . | -..- ......... .................. - .... - (1801)278 : | | a. An incident he observed, [probably while staying j at RS's]: the only time he ever saw RS become angry with j Edith— and she didn't even.notice him enough to know that ;he was angry. [This, of course, was STC's problem with hisi lown wife— he had practically no communication with her.] : (CN I #1030 and n.) j b. As STC falls asleep, the thought of someone [SH?] ■ comes upon him so strongly that he opens his eyes to look. (CN I #1032.) j : • i c. The address of John Leslie, [a young scientist j working for the Wedgwoods and living at Mr. Carstairs', a ! London merchant.] (CN I #1043 and n.) 203. Nov 27 , RS writes from London to John Rickman: STC is in town and writing for MP. (WL 183.) W, DW, [MH] expect letters from STC, SH— receive one from SH, none from STC— are disappointed. (DWJ I, 85.) 204. Nov 29 DW— still no letter from STC— or anyone else. (DWJ I, 86.) 205. [Nov] 30 W, DW, [MH] receive a short letter from STC, who is well and promises to write the next day. DW writes SC. (DWJ I, 86.) i 206. [Probably Dec, 1801] STC records the following note book entries: I a. A description of STC as disapointed in marriage, trying to compensate for it by having a "virtuous and tender and brotherly friendship" with SH; finding that impossible, j he recommends to himself to take up the study of abstract sciences. (CN I #1064 and n.) b. [STC is possibly at this time taking opium to re lieve his asthma;] at least he records a note on the bene ficial aspect of opium in restoring the power of breathing, ; at the same time commenting that it is just a temporary re- ! lief. (CN I #1076 and n.) j 1207. {Probably between Dec 1801 and May 10, 1803J STC describes the sensation of falling asleep, as an alogous to falling down a precipice. [Presumably he exper ienced this sensation himself. Probably the earlier date is correct.] (CN I #1078 and n; cf. "Pantisocracy": PW II, 68-69.) 208. [Probably between Dec 1801 and May 1802] [STC evidently feels lack of understanding from his friends, (and particularly, of course, from his wife, though he does not mention her here),j and records a note expressing the comfort of being understood. (CN I #10$2 (6) and n.) 209. Dec 1 DW, W, [MH] receive a letter from STC, who is fairly well. IDWJ I, 86.) "The Wills of the Wisp" first published. (MP Dec 1, 11801; PW II, 979-80, app. crit. See 1801:173; GCL 84.) 210. Dec 2 RS writes Charles Danvers: The possibility of moving into Greta Hall at the end of the year. The relationship between STC and HD. (NL 260.) Godwin calls on STC. (Godwin (MS diary).)39 211. [1801], Dec 2 DW writes part of a letter to STC (unpreserved.) (DWJ I, 87.) 212. Dec 4 "Ode to Tranquillity" first published. (MP Dec 4, 1801; PW I, 360-61; GCL 83.)40 39It is possible that STC may be ill on this day. Godwin has supper at Northmore's with RS, among others, but no mention is made of STC, who under normal circumstances would probably have been present. 40Carl Woodring suggests that this poem is largely plagiarized from Sir Philip Sidney. (See PPC 188.) (1801) 280 1213. [1801, Dec 4] i I DW completes her letter to STC begun Dec 2 (see 1801: 211); W, DW, [MH] receive letters from him and SH, both written in good spirits. (DWJ I, 87.) 214. [1801, Dec] 6 W, DW, [MH] receive a letter from STC (unpreserved). jAt first they think it cheerful, and are happy, then find it "sad [and] melancholy," and it prevents them all from sleeping. (DWJ I, 88.) 215. [1801], Dec 7 DW, MH walk to Greta Hall to see SC, whom they meet in the field. She leaves them after awhile; they have tea and talk to the Coleridge children, Hartley and Derwent. They write to STC while there, and again after they arrive home DW says, "I wrote a letter to C." (DWJ I, 88.) 216. [1801], Dec 9 DW writes to STC. (DWJ I, 89.) RS writes from London to John Rickman in Ireland: Goerge Burnett is working for the Courier, but will not be able to keep the job: "He is tottering now in Colerige's leading strings." (Rickman 69.) 217. [1801, Dec] 12 DW goes walking to Rydal, comes home "on the other side of the lake," eats twenty rose hips for "dear" STC when she is alone. (DWJ I, 91.) 218.# [1801, Dec] 13 W, DW, [MH] receive letters from STC, SH. SH is "in bad spirits" about STC. (DWJ I, 91.) 219. Dec 14 STC writes TP from London: He is upset by London; writing for MP; reading metaphysics in the library. Leaves in a few days for Gunville, then to TP's with TW; dreams of going to France with TP and Davy. (CL II #424.) 220. [1801,] Dec 14 DW writes to STC "a very long letter.” (DWJ I, 91.) I 221. [1801, c Dec 18] j STC writes W: He means to leave London very soon. j (EY #165 and nl.) j 222. Dec 17 I : [STC may possibly be ill.] (Godwin (MS diary).)41 ! 223. Dec 18 I DW writes to STC for money. (DWJ I, 92.)4^ 224. Dec 19 j STC inscribes his first copy of Bartram's Travels to SH, noting that it is a "delicious" book, to be taken |a little at a time, "like all delicious Things." (CN I #218n; STC copy #1, William Bartram Travels, DC. See 1799:137.) | 225. [1801, shortly before Dec 21] W writes STC requesting £10 payment on STC's £30 debt, to W. (EY #165; see 1801:58.) I i 226. [1801, Dec 21] W receives STC's letter of [c Dec 18] (see 1801:221) indicating his anticipation of leaving London soon for Nether Stowey. (EY #165.) 227. [1801,] Dec 21 W writes to Daniel Stuart from Grasmere: His recent 41Godwin has supper at Lamb's: RS is there, but no mention is made of STC. 4^W asks STC for £10 (see 1801:225). The money was Iprobably needed for their journey to Eusemere, via Keswick, iDec 28ff. ! ' (1801) 282 | i j letter to STC requesting £10-. STC probably left London be-j | fore the letter could reach him.43 Requests Stuart to j | supply the funds. (EY #165.) j ; RS writes Charles Danvers from London: STC's inten- i | tion to go to the Wedgwoods' , then return to spend some j : months in London. RS sees little of him; STC is enjoying the London society: he only dislikes London "when he is : obliged to work in it, or when he is away from it..." (WL 185.) i i 228. [1801, Dec] 21 W, DW, [MH] receive two letters from STC, one from j SH. STC's are melancholy: he has been "very ill in his bowels." W, DW, MH are very unhappy. W writes to STC at Nether Stowey (see 1801:235). DW finishes it. (DWJ I, 92-93.) 229. [1801, Dec] 22 W, DW, [MH] receive a letter from STC: Melancholy, because he has been sick, though he is better at the time of the writing. DW says later, "We were very sad about j Coleridge." (DWJ I, 93-94.) 230. [1801, Dec] 23 MH writes out "the Tales from Chaucer" for STC. (DWJ I, 95.) 231. Dec 24 STC writes TP from London: STC leaves tomorrow night on the Bridgewater Mail for Stowey; will arrive Sat at Bridgewater, proceed to Stowey "as the weather dictates"; has been ill. (CL II #425; see 1801:235.) ! 232. [1801], Dec [25] W, DW, [MH] receive STC letter: He is "poorly, but better." The letter makes them uneasy about him; DW is glad she was not by herself when she received it. (DWJ I, i 95.) 233. Dec 25 STC has breakfast with HD. Intends to dine with RS, i 43STC did not leave London till Dec 26 (see 1801: 235) . but is unwell. (CL II #427.)44 STC writes Daniel Stuart: His soon leaving for Stow-j ey. Promises to work while gone; financial matters. (CL j II #426.) j 234. [1801/ Dec] 26 i DW recalls that STC, SH and "dear little Derwent" j were in the vicinity last year at this time. She writes to STC/ and W "wrote part of the poem to Coleridge/" i. e. ■ The Prelude. (DWJ I, 96 and nl.) | j 235. Dec 26 (-Dec 28); [Jan 20] i STC leaves London for Nether Stowey and TP's, where j he will spend the New Year, on Dec 26. He arrives at Bath i 11:00 p. m. in a heavy rain. i(Arrives Stowey Dec 28. See I 1801:237.) Leaves [probably Jan 20.] (CL II #426, 427; see 1802:6.) i 236. Dec 27 STC stays with Warren45 in Bath. (CL II #427.) I 237. [1801], Dec 28 [-Jan 2, 1802] i W, DW, MH walk to Keswick to see SC and the children,: who are well. [They apparently spend the night; are on | their way to Eusemere and the Clarksons1.] (DWJ I, 96-97.)! STC arrives Nether Stowey at TP's the afternoon of j Dec 28. [Stays till evidently Jan 20, 1802.] (CL II I #427; CN I #1084 and n.)46 This may be the breakfast, mentioned TT 14, given j by James Mackintosh for HD, STC, at which they discuss Locke and Newton. If not on this day, that breakfast al- i most certainly was given during this stay of STC1 s in Lon- j don. It was earlier this year that STC wrote letters on Locke to Josiah Wedgwood (see 1801:31) and was also think- j ing about Newton (see 1801:53); he had recent contact with I Mackintosh (see 1801:151 b) ; and he was surely planning to : see HD while in London (see 1801:179) . ! 45Unidentified. 46JDC 128 says that TW was STC's "fellow-guest at | Poole's" during this visit. I am unable to discover his authority for this statement. STC certainly did not visit j the Wedgwoods as planned before going to Stowey (see 1801: j 219), so if he was intending to secure TW as a companion, j (1801)284 |238. [Dec 28-c Jan 7] STC is ill at Stowey. (CL II #430.) j , • | 239. [1801], Dec 29 | : i i I W, DW, MH leave STC's house, conscious as they climb j jthe hills that "dear Coleridge's desert home" is behind jthem. They think of him. (DWJ I, 97.) i 1 i 240. Dec 31 ■ j STC writes RS from TP's at Nether Stowey: Breakfast j with HD on Christmas day, intended to dine with RS, but was | very unwell. Left London Sat morning 4:00 a.m. (Dec 26— | see 1801:235); arrived Bath 11:00 p.m. in heavy rain. Re mained Bath till Mon 28th; arrived Stowey Mon afternoon. Consolations on the death of RS's mother. Plans uncertain: ; "I have not yet made up my mind whether or no I shall move Devonward." (CL II #427.) it is uncertain when he would have done so. 1802 1. Jan 3 ! W, DW, [MH], receive letters from SH, STC. (DWJ I, 98.) 2. Jan 5 John Rickman writes from Ireland to RS in London: "STC; seems to have done George Burnett much good in London." (Rickman 72.) ' 3. 11802, c Jan 5] j STC writes SH from Stowey: Description of Mr. Peach leaving Greta Hall and Hartley's sorrow over it and Mr. Jackson's remedy. (CL II #429. See Raysor, 310.)1 j 4. Jan 8 [STC may be ill.] He is invited to dinner [at God win's?], but does not attend. (Godwin (MS diary).) 5. [c Jan 16) i STC writes Daniel Stuart: His illness "for the first ten days after my arrival at Stowey"; will be in London Thursday (Jan 21) "at the latest"; please inform the How- j ells. (CL II #480. See 1802:7.) j 6. [1802, Jan 20) (-Jan 21) [Probably on Jan 20] STC, [TP] leave Nether Stowey for j London, via Bridgewater, Wells, Old Down Inn, and Bath, De-j vizes, Marlborough, Newbury, Reading, Maidenhead, and Brentford. . ([They] arrive London Jan 21.) (CL II #431; CNi STC, SH carry on a large correspondence during this time of STC's absence, only fragments of which survive. (CL II #429 headnote.) 285 “ (1802)'' 286 i | I #1084 and n.)2 i j 7. Jan 21 | STC, [TP] arrive in London from Nether Stowey, go to the Howells' in Covent Garden. (CL II #430, 431.) STC writes Godwin from London: Compliments on his mar-* riage to Mrs. Clairmont. (CL II #431.) STC dines with TP and HD in a large party at the Tepi- ! darian Society (CL II #432 and hi, p.732); STC, [TP] at tend the first evening lecture in HD's series of lectures at the Royal Institution Jan 21-Feb, 1802. STC does not take notes,. [He probably does not attend the series again until Jan 28; if he does attend, he does not take notes.] i(CN I #1098n; CL II #432.) 8. J an 2 2 STC writes Godwin from London: Attempts to explain his indolence and lack of accomplishment: "a Starling self- encaged, and always in the Moult, and my whole Note is, To morrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow." Requests mercy, not ljustice. Explains his neglect of Godwin since his arrival in London in Nov. "As an Author...I have neither Vanity nor ambition...." (CL II #432.) 9. [Jan] 24 DW writes to STC (unpreserved). (DWJ I, 101.) 10. [1801, Jan 24] STC in London receives a letter from the pastor with whom he stayed at Ratzeburg in Germany. (CL II #433.) 11. Jan [25] STC writes George Greenough from London: STC's letter; from the pastor at Ratzeburg (see 1801:10); Godwin's letter. Encloses pens for mending. (CN II #433.) 12. Jan 25 i STC records draft made to the order of Mr. William 2tp perhaps goes with STC to London, or comes to visit j him before Jan 21, for the purpose of hearing HD's lectures ; jat the Royal Institution. (See 1802:7; CL II #436; Poole j III, 97.) K. Coburn seems to suggest that this return trip took till Jan 25, but CL II #431, dated Jan 21, distinctly I Isays that STC arrived in London "this morning." J ; (1802) 287 i 'Jackson, [his landlord at Greta Hall.j (CN I #1085.)3 DW, W receive no letters. DW writes to SC. (DWJ I, 102.) 1 ! '13. [1802, c Jan 6] | [STC is perhaps ill with sores and boils and a bad I cough.] (CN I #1088, 1090; see also 1091 and n b e l o w . ) 4 j STC observes that he does not like to sit indoors all j day with his windows and doors shut. (CN I #1091.)5 [STC evidently visits or is visited by one Tuffin, "a ! friend of Coleridge's friend Tobin and of Samuel Rogers," ! according to K. Coburn.] The CN entry relating to him is j particularly descriptive: "Diarrhoea of Talk— gave him a piece of paper to wipe his mouth." (CN I #1096 and n.) ' 14. [Jan] 26 W, DW receive a letter from MH with an account of STC's arrival in London. (DWJ I, 102.) 15. Jan 27 j i W, DW receive no letter from STC; DW writes to him (unpreserved). (DWJ I, 102.) 16. [Probably 1802, Jan 28] STC attends and takes notes on HD's morning and even ing lectures at the Royal Institution. The lectures are on; 3r . Coburn speculates that he was withdrawing some of his Wedgwood annuity to send money to Jackson or his wife. ■ 4k . Coburn speculates at this point that CN I #1088, | "Sores and Boils," perhaps represents "a stagecoach game ofj 'grievances." She does not comment on entry #1090, "Treach-j erous Cough." It seems to me rather that the entries may j represent actual discomfort experienced by STC himself at i this time. STC had certainly experienced boils before this j time: DW for Nov 28, 1800 records in her journal that STC I was ill with "great boils upon his neck." In view of this, j and of the fact that these two CN entries relating to typi-j cal STC illnesses follow each other so closely, it seems to j me at least possible that they indicate difficulties of STC's own. ^Does this entry relate to #1088, 1090, further sug- ! ;gesting possible STC illness? ; — (1802) 288" i ^chemistry and the connection of chemistry with the arts. ISTC feels a shock from the spark of HD's Leyden Phial, af ter feeling nothing from the electric machine. (CN I #1098 ; land n, #1099; CL II #438.)6 j ! I I 17. [Probably between Jan 23 and Feb, 1802] i STC records in his notebook a description of playful ! tenderness "touching the Heart, as with an infant's finger,' [ a description which appears also in "The Day Dream." (CN I ! #1105; "The Day Dream": PW I, 387; GCL 86 b.) ! 18. Jan 29 ! W, DW receive a letter from STC— "heart-rending," says I DW. "We were as sad as could be." W writes to him. Laterj after tea they both write to him, and talk about the possi- I bility of W's going to London. (DWJ I, 103.) In London, STC [probably attends HD's lectures at the Royal Institution.] (18 02:16 and n.) 19. [1802, Jan 30] i [STC probably attends HD's lectures at the Royal Insti4 tution.] (CN I #1098 and n. See 1802:16 and n.) j 20. Jan 31 j W, DW walk around Lakes Grasmere and Rydal. DW likes to walk that way because it is the way she first came to Ry dal and Grasmere, and the way STC did also. The scene re- minds W of the day STC came there with him. (DWJ I, 205. i See DWJM 82, Nov 4, 1799; DWJ I, 104, Nov 3, 1799; EY #124.) 21. [1802, Feb] STC writes SC from London: Their anger toward each ! other; the children; SH. (CL II #434.) I 22. [1802, Feb 1] j [STC probably attends HD's lectures on chemistry at the Royal Institution.] (CN I #1098 and n. See 1802:16n«) I 23. [1802, Feb 2] [STC probably attends HD's lectures on chemistry at the Royal Institution.] (1802:16 and n.) ' ! 6He takes notes on all the other lectures he attends through Feb 6. _ _ . (1802) 289 ; i 24. [Feb] 3 I i j DW writes to STC from Grasmere. (DWJ I, 106.) j [STC probably attends HD's lectures at the Royal Insti-i tution.) (CN I #1098 and n. See 1802:16 and n.) j * i i 25. [1802, Feb 4] ! 1 ! i [STC probably attends HD's lectures on chemistry at j the Royal Institution.] (CN I #1098 and n. See 1802:16 ;and n. ) i 1 26. [1802, Feb 5] ; • i [STC probably attends HD's lectures on chemistry at the Royal Institution.] (CN I #1098 and n. See 1802:16 j and n.) I 27. [1802, Feb 6] ; i [STC probably attends HD's lectures at the Royal Insti tution.] (CN I #1098 and n, #1099; CL II #438. See 1802: 16 and n.)7 [STC, RS possibly dine at C. W. Williams Wynn's.] (NL i 271.) j RS writes Charles Danvers: STC, RS to dine today at j Wynn's. STC's talk about his domestic difficulties; the possibility of his moving with his family and the W's to j the south of France. The unsuitability of the Keswick cli- • mate. RS does not wish to go abroad with STC. (NE 271.) 28. Feb 6 t W, DW receive "two very affecting letters" from STC, who is "resolved to try another climate." DW is made ill by the letters. (DWJ I, 107.) 29. Feb 8 W, DW receive a letter from STC. He is not ill, but i the letter "somewhat damp[s]" their spirits. It speaks j "with less confidence about France."8 W, DW write to him; I DW also writes to SC. DW says, "Coleridge's letter con- 7This is STC's last recorded set of notes on HD's lec- I tures. The lectures apparently went on for some time long- j er, but STC probably did not attend. j i 0Margoliouth 98 speculates that STC in London has been ! negotiating with a Frenchman about W's situation with An nette Vallon (see 1802:31). 1 “....... -.- - ........ -. -....... (1802) 290 : ! * I |tained prescriptions."® (DWJ I, 108-09.) j ! ■ i |30. Feb 10 j i I ' : ■ ! Godwin has tea at STC's. (Godwin (MS diary).) j 31. Feb 13 i ! j i DW notes: Received a letter from SH, "and one from the Frenchman in London"— possibly the one with whom STC is ne- I igotiating about W's situation with Annette Vallon. (DWJ I, : ;112; see 1802:29n.) 32. Feb 14 i Lamb writes John Rickman: Lamb's and STC's relation ship with Daniel Stuart and MP. (LL I #124.) DW writes to STC (unpreserved). (DWJ I, 114.) After an evening spent [possibly with RS,] at the home of Bellows, an Irish barrister, STC, slightly intoxicated, experiences in bed strange hallucinations. (CN I #1108 and ; n.) 33. Feb 15 DW writes part of a letter to STC, after receiving one I from him. He is much better. [Neither of these letters has been preserved. DW does not say when her letter begun this day is completed.] (DWJ I, 114.) 34. Feb 16 STC calls on Godwin, stays to dinner. (Godwin (MS diary).) 35. [Feb] 18 j DW begins a letter to STC; W brings a letter from STC. ; (DWJ I, 115.) 36. [1802, Feb 18] STC receives a letter from TP. (CL II #436.) [STC probably dines with RS at his lodging; possibly Isaac D'Israeli is there also.] Afterwards STC is ill; spends a bad night. (CN I #1116n; CL II #435.) | ^The W's probably are not ill. STC's prescriptions are! probably for their information only, out of STC's medical curiosity and own chronic ailments. (1802) 291 1 |37. [Feb] 19 j | I DW writes to STC— [possibly a completion of the letterj ibegun Feb 18 (see 1802:35).] W carries the letter to Am- J bleside. (DWJ I, 115.) i ; ■ i 38. Feb 19 | ' i STC writes SC from London: Dinner yesterday with RS; j illness afterwards; otherwise health generally improved. j iDesire for reconciliation with SC. Expects to leave London; "this day fortnight" (Mar 5), to be home Mar 7 (but see j 1802:46). Dinner on Sun (Feb 21) with Sir William RushlO; attendance at Mrs. Billington's Benefit on Mon; dinner Wed ! with James Losh. Will work on a place for George Fricker in the India House or other public office. Mary Lovell will remain with the RS's. Underwood's love for a Jewess; suggestion of "a two years' Residence at Montpellier. In that case, we would go to Liverpool and spend a week or tenj days with the Cromptons— and from Liverpool to Bordeux by Sea— ...Southey would go that way to Lisbon— and spend some; months with us— ."11 Gift for Hartley. (CL II #435.) STC writes TP: His illness after dinner at RS's, but j "no occasion for opiates of any kind." Health on the mend j ever since TP left town (see 1802:6 and n). Received TP's j letter yesterday (unpreserved); gave it to HD. The first i sheet of STC's work on the history of metaphysical opinionsj is about to go to press (see WTM I, 398-99). Leaving Lon don in a fortnight. (CL II #436.)l2 \ 39. [1802, Feb 21] [STC probably dines with Sir William Rush.] (CL II #435.) I 40. [Feb] 22 j DW receives a letter from STC, who has had "another .attack in his bowels" — -otherwise he is better. DW intends j to write STC but is prevented. (DWJ I, 116.) l^Unidentified. HThis dream-plan is never realized. l^He does not write again for over two months. See TP's letter of May 2 (1802:92). (1802) 292 41. [1802, Feb 22] STC dines again with Sir William Rush, has a seat in Ithe Rush box at Mrs. Billington's Benefit-:-The Beggar's I Opera. (CL II #435,437.) j i ' ! |42. [Probably 1802, Feb] j i , ’ j STC, taking nitrous oxide, hears a singing in his ears; land is misunderstood to mean that he hears Mrs. Billington, ; the great opera singer, singing by his ear. He records the ! incident in his notebook. (CN I #1107 and n; MC 201-02.) ! f l > ' ■ |43. Feb 24 | i ; ; ■ i STC writes SC from London: Improved health and spi rits; two years in a better climate will improve him ‘ greatly. W's soon coming marriage.13 RS will visit the ISTC's on his way to Spain; "about July we shall all set Isail from Liverpool to Bordeux..." (see 1802:38n). SH may ; be coming to Grasmere to spend time with MH before MH's mar-4 jriage to W; if so, STC will go to Gallow Hill and take her home with him. 14 STC will stay a few days at Derby with j Joseph Strutt.15 Mrs. Billington's benefit; STC's rela- i tionship with fashionable London ladies; looks forward to home. (CL II #437.) • [STC probably has dinner with James Losh.] (CL II #435.) 144. [Feb] 24 W writes to STC, Annette and the Frenchman (see 1802:29,31); DW adds "a little bit." DW remarks on the j wind and rain, thanks God that STC is in safe quarters, be-; cause it would be "a sad night for a traveller such as he." (DWJ I, 117.) i 13"Wordsworth was,not married until 4 Oct. 1802. Un- j doubtedly letters to and from 'poor Annette.' Vallon (see |DWJ I, 114-28) led him to delay his, marriage until he had | seen her and his daughter Caroline." (CN II #437 nl, p.788.) | 14Dorothy says she and Wordsworth were 'perplexed about Sara's coming'; as a matter of fact Sara did not go to i Grasmere. STC, nevertheless, arrived at Gallow Hill on Tues !2 Mar., where he remained until 13 Mar. (CL II #437 n2, p.788.) j 15STC evidently did not spend time with Joseph Strutt. | ! .... ." ...... ...-... 1 ' ....... ""...(1802) 293. j 45. [Feb] 26 W, DW receive a short letter from STC? W writes to SC I [to warn her thait he is coming to see her (DWJM 96n) ]. [The letter from STC probably tells the W's that he expectsj to be in Keswick by Mar 4 (see 1802:48).] (DWJ I, 118.) i ' | 46. [Mar 1] W writes to STC, [probably to Keswick, as W goes to Keswick on the 4th (see 1802:48), evidently expecting STC to be there, probably on the basis of the letter received Feb 26 (see 1802:45)]. (DWJ I, 118.) [STC probably leaves London for Gallow Hill on this day.] (See CN I #1151,1140,1141,1144,1150.) 47. Mar 2 (-Mar 13) On his return trip from London, STC calls on SH at ’ Gallow Hill. He arrives Mar 2, (stays till Mar 13; see :1802:54). (CN I #1151, 1140,1141,1144,1150. See CL II #438 for [original draft] of "Dejection, an Ode," which in-' ■eludes an incident that probably occurred at Gallow Hill during this time. See also "A Day-dream," PW I, 385; GCL ' 79a.) i 48. Mar 4 W leaves on a trip to Keswick, [expecting STC to be there by now (see 1802:45,46)]. (DWJ I, 119. See DWJM 96n.) 49. [Mar 5] W is gone? DW expects a letter from STC, there is none. (DWJ I, 120.) ! 50. [Mar 6] DW receives a letter from STC, then writes one. [This j is probably the letter telling them that STC is at Gallow Hill (see 1802:51ff).] (DWJ I, 120.) 51. [Mar 8] W, DW write STC and SH. [W returned on the 7th, so DWI would have known by now or at least guessed where STC was, jsince he was not at home as expected— if she did not learn I jfrom STC's letter received Mar 6 (see 1802:50).] (DWJ I, 121. ) (1802) 294 52. Mar 11 At Gallow Hill, [something of significance— though STC ! does not say what— happens between STC and SH. K. Coburn I points out tha!t the entry is in very large, clear writing, j |as though to call attention to something important.] (CN I; ,#1150.) 53. Mar 12 ! ' I SH will not go on to Keswick and Grasmere with STC as ! he had expected, and he is unhappy. (.CN X #1151; CL II #437.) 54. Mar 13 [-Mar 15] STC leaves Gallow Hill and the Hutchinsons Mar 13, [arriving at Keswick the 15th (see 1802:56)]. It is stormy, and he is riding the mail coach. [He probably spends the night of the 13th at or just north of Thirsk, on; the road to Northallerton.] (CN I #1151.) 55. Mar 14 STC spends this night at Scotch Corner. (CN I #1151.)16 56. [1802, Mar 15] STC arrives home at Keswick [probably on Mar 15] . (DWJM 95 n2; CN I #1151.) 57. [1802, between Mar 15 and July 13] [Sometime after his arrival home and before July 13, ' : probably early July, STC is visited by William Sotheby, his I wife, his daughter, one of his sons and his brother. They I go together by carriage to Grasmere, where Sotheby probably| meets W, DW (see EY #209). They part on the road between l^There are two Scotch Corners on the road between Gallow Hill and Keswick, one just off the main highway about midway between Helmsley and Thirsk, the other at an abrupt turn in the. road between Northallerton and Barnard ; Castle. It is more likely that STC spent the night' at the ; second one, as the first is only about thirty miles from Gallow Hill and would hardly have been sufficient distance i for a two-day journey, especially in the mail coach, in which STC was riding. ■ : - .......... -.. .......-..... -....- ...: .... (1802) 295 ] I „ I jAmbleside and Grasmere.) (CL II #44; 1802:145.)17 ! I . [ '58. [Probably Mar, 1802J ; [There is a distant possibility, not at all probable, j that STC spends this night on Helvellyn, in company with W, 1 DW, MH and SH.) (CN I #1156 and n.)1^ 59. [Mar 19 (-Mar 21)] j DW does not expect STC at Grasmere, but he arrives, I •"his eyes a little swollen with the wind...He seemed half I stupefied;.. .went to bed late." W, DW stay up until 4:00 a.m. discussing STC and his problems. DW's spirits are •"agitated very much." (DWJ I, 127.)19 (STC stays at Gras-i mere until [probably Mar 21; see 1802:61.J) 60. [Mar 20] j STC, W walk to Borwick's. Later at home they all talk: about going abroad. (DWJ I, 127.) 61. [Mar 21) STC, W lie long in bed. STC leaves for home; W, DW go with him as far as Borwick's. (DWJ I, 127.) 62. [Mar 22J W, DW talk again about STC; W writes STC "not to ex pect us till Thursday or Friday" (Mar 25 or 26). (DWJ I, 1232) ............... l7William Sotheby (1757-1833), "poet, dramatist, and translator, became STC's staunch friend from the time of their meeting in 1802." (CL I #444 nl.) ! l^The entry is recorded in CN as though it had ac tually occurred, but it is not likely in view of the pro bable whereabouts, according to all other evidence, of all five parties at this time, especially SH. 19"d . W.'s agitation was probably due to the sad state; .of Coleridge's domestic affairs and also perhaps to the re-! •alization that he was taking opium. This may be the mean ing of 'he seemed half stupefied'." (DWJM 105n.) The jswelling of his eyes might also have been from something ! •else besides the wind. It seems probable that the opium addiction had begun by this time. JDC 128-32 has a good discussion of it, also EKC 138, where Chambers attributes (1802) 296 63. {Mar 23J j ! W, DW are still talking about STC. No letter from j Ihim. (DWJ I, 128.) j 64. [Mar 25] W, DW receive ho letter from STC. They do not go to j Keswick (see 1802:62) . Nor do they go the next day, Fri- i day. (DWJ I, 128.) J ■ I 65. [Mar 28] (-Apr 5); Apr 16 | i W, DW arrive at Keswick "wet to skin," on their way toj Eusemere and the Clarksons'. STC walks to meet them; is : not tired. (They leave Apr 5 to continue bn to Eusemere; j return to Grasmere Apr 16.) (DWJ I, 129. See 1802:73, 77.) 66. [Mar 29] STC, W go to Armathwaite, receive a letter from SH. DW talks with SC. (DWJ I, 129.) 67. Mar 30 [W, STC, SC,J DW, go to Calvert's. (DWJ I, 129.) 68. Mar 31 [STC, W, SC,] DW walk to Portinscale, lie upon the turf, see into the Vale of Newlands, up to Borrowdale, down; to Keswick— "a soft Venetian view." (DWJ X, 129.) 69. 11802, Apr] The third edition of LB is published this month. | (Moorman I, 582.) 70. Apr 1 STC, W, DW, SC go to the How, come home by Portin scale, sit for some time on the hill. (DWJ I, 129.) 71. [Apr 3] STC, W go to Skiddaw. DW, SC, [STC, W,] dine at Cal- ! vert's. (DWJ I, 129.) it to his 1800-1801 illness (see 1800:264; 1801:89). : - ■ (180 2) 297 172. Apr 4 ; . i ; [STC, W, SC,J DW drive in the gig to Water End; DW ! |walks back to STC's. (DWJ I, 129.) ; [At Keswick,] STC writes to SH the first draft of "De-j ijection: An Ode," very personal and recounting an exper- j ience [probably had during STC's stay at Gallow Hill Mar i2-13 (see 1802:82, 93).] (CL II #438; PW I, 362; CL II #445, 449, 464, 512; GCL 85.)20 j : ' i 73. Apr 15 j W, DW leave STC's; STC walks with them to Threlkeld. They are on their way to Eusemere, where they arrive for tea. (DWJ I, 129.) 74. [1802], Apr 6 j Thomas Manning writes from Paris to Lamb: Inquires I after STC. (ML 74.) 75. [Apr] 10 DW writes to STC, [evidently from Eusemere.] (Letter unpreserved.) (DWJ I, 130.) 76. Apr 13 ; DW, at Eusemere, receives a letter from STC (unpre served) . (DWJ I, 130.) 77. Apr 16 STC [probably goes climbing on the hills around Kes wick; is much impressed with the view of Walla Crag.] At night he observes [what is probably Mars, making a circle j underneath the moon, on a white cloud.] (CN I #1159, 1160. ) I W, DW arrive back at Grasmere from Eusemere. (BY #167, n2.) * . . . . . . . . . . . . . i 2®Fruman suggests (DA 511, nl4) that this draft is a fair copy, the poem actually having been written during the days preceding, after Mar 13. But see also CL III xxxv; j Moorman I, 528; George Watson: Coleridge the Poet (London, 1966), 77. Whalley also takes for granted that the "Letter j to t&Bra]" is the first draft of the poem (GW xii, 101, \ 155-164). The letter was first published in Ernest de Sdl- j incourt, Wordsworthian and Other Studies (Oxford, 1937) „ Whalley published it again with variations (GW 155-64) . (1802) 298 i i I ; ' ! 78. 11802, Apr 16J j ; * - ' ! W, DW write; STC from Grasmere: W's return from Bish- ! | op Middleham to Eusemere (he had gone there while the W's were staying with the Clarksons) : j W, DW's final return to Grasmere. Enclosures: "The Glow Worm" "Written in March." (EY #168.) ;79. {Probably between Apr 16 and 20, 1802J [Does STC see JW during this time? If not, the CN entry noting his powers of observation must be retrospec tive.) (CN I #1162.) 180. Apr 17 W, DW receive letters from STC, SH. (The letters are - unpreserved.) (DWJ I, 134.) 81. Apr 20 (-Apr 25) STC arrives at Grasmere Apr 20, (leaves Apr 25; see 1802:85). (DWJ I, 135-38.) DW says he "came up palish," but afterwards she finds he looks well. STC, [DW, W,] walk to Sara's Rock [on the east side of Thirlmere, a little way along the Grasmere-Keswick road from Wytheburn;] STC carves his own name and DW's above the S. H. that is al ready there. (CN I #1163 and n.) 82. Apr 21 STC recites to W, DW verses he has written to SH ("Dejection Ode"— GCL 85). (DWJ I, 136. See 1802:72 and n.) 83. Apr 23 STC, W, DW walk toward Rydal, decide to go under Nab Scar. STC selects several places to sit, but "we could not be all of one mind respecting sun and shade," so they push ion to the foot of the Scar. STC and DW. continue walking, leaving W "feasting with silence." STC, DW sit upon a rocky seat; W comes to them, repeats his poems. STC goes to search "for something new," climbs up toward a rock, finds a "sweet bower." They find a place good for plant ing flowers; resolve to do so tomorrow. Wish for MH and !SH. Later STC receives and reads a letter from SH. (DWJ ;I, 136-38; CN-1 #1164.) |Griggs has used de S^lincourt's version. r .. "..... * ... '..(1802) 299 i i ; ] '84. [Apr] 24 ! ! I ! STC, W, DW go walking on a very wet day. Walk in the jevening to Rydai. STC, DW linger behind. STC stops a j rivulet by the road-side to make a lake. All look at Glow- j worm Rock. (DWJ I, 138.) 85. Apr 25 i STC returns from Grasmere to Keswick. W, DW go with him part way. He enters a gig with Mr. Beck, drives away irom them. (DWJ I, 138.) 86. [Apr] 26 DW copies W's poems for STC, writes to him. [She is copying a MS for him to take on his proposed journey.] (DWJ I, 138.) 87. Apr 27 ! i W, DW receive a letter and verses from STC. (DWJ I, 138-39. These verses have not been identified: [possibly "A Day Dream" and/or "The Happy Husband"?] (PW I, 385-86, 388; GCL 79a,b.) 88. [Apr] 29 W, DW send a parcel to STC. They receive a letter from him after they are in bed; it disturbs W so that he has a bad headache the next day (see 1802:89ff). (DWJ I, 139.) i 89. Apr 30 ; W has a bad headache from reading, the letter from STC j Which was brought to the door the night before, disturbing ; his sleep. W, DW write to STC in the evening. (DWJ I, 140.) ! !90. [Probably Apr or May, 1802] STC records the following notebook entries: : a. A description of the series of mountain and hill granges around Keswick. (CN I #1175.) j j b. A comment on STC's "Christ's Hospital" dreams, re-j jlating them to the importance of bringing children up hap py. [STC may possibly have one of these dreams around this! time.] (CN I #1176.) j j ' ....-...■ ...-.-.. • ...-.....--....: ......... -----(1802) 300 j i | c. A comment about the power of indignation prompting| jthe desire of inflicting evil on a person. [STC may per- j haps be still experiencing the emotional conflicts that prompted the writing of "Dejection Ode."] (CN I #1185.) j ! 1 91• [Probably May, 1802) ; • . . i | STC, [probably home at Keswick,] observes and commentsj Ion Derwent's extension of the idea of "door" to include thej I lids of boxes and the covers of books. The entry is dated ; 'from STC's note, "a year and 8 months," [probably referring! 'to Derwent,] who was born Sept 14, 1800. (CN I #1192.) 92. May 2 I W, DW receive a letter from STC. (DWJ I, 142.) TP writes STC: Trouble in their communication. TP's : ;plan to leave at least by May 31 for Paris and Switzerland.I Can STC supply information? TP's possible companions. (Poole II, 78-79. See 1802:38. See 1802:97 for STC's re ply.)2! 93. May 4 W, DW go walking, see STC "on the Wytheburn side of the water." He crosses over to where they are. They walk ! on, [apparently together,] though DW says "William and I late a luncheon, then went on towards the waterfall," ne glecting to mention STC. He is with them later, however, I for she says that "William and C. repeated and read ver ses." STC has carved letters in the morning at Sara's ; Crag; W, DW, STC look at them, then part from STC there. DW kisses the letters. W deepens the T with STC's pen- ; knife.22 STC looks well, parts from the W's "chearfully [sic,] hopping up upon the side stones." DW notices "the crescent moon with the auld moon in her arms."22 (DWJ I, I142-) ; 94. May 5 DW writes STC. DW says, "...packed off Th[a]laba..." — t-to STC]? (DWJ I, 143.) 2^TP does go to Paris and Switzerland and Holland, ar riving home about Christmas (Poole 11,80-81). 22See Moorman I, 551 for the subsequent history of this X’ ock. i . 23A probable allusion to STC's "Dejection Ode" (see GCL 85) .......... ; |95. [1802, possibly just before May 6] ! i ! i ! STC writes "Answer to a Child's Question" (PW I, 386; I GCL 86a) and "The Day-Dream; From an Emigrant to his Ab sent Wife" (PW I, 386-87? GCL 86b). j j96. May 6 ! ; j W, DW receive a letter from STC with verses to Hart ley, SH. ["Probably the 'verses to Hartley' are 'Answer to ! a . Child's Question' (PW I, 386). The 'verses to Sara H.' are perhaps 'The Day-Dream: From an Emigrant to his Absent I Wife' (PW I, 386-87). It is unlikely that D. W. means the 'Dejection' verses." (DWJM 120? GCL 86a,b.)] i 97. [1802J, May 7 STC writes TP from Keswick; Apology for not writing? • STC "neither very well, nor very happy"? working on the metaphysical history? next year "a iong poem"; all his small poems about to be published "as a second Volume, and ! ;I mean to write few, if any, small poems hereafter."24 sc probably pregnant again, "an event, which was to have been deprecated." TP's projected trip to Europe. STC can give no information on France? perhaps W can. What are "the | price of provisions and house rent in the South of France— ; nearest Switzerland?" Death of John Cruikshank. Trans cription of two W poems; "To a Butterfly" (WPW I, 226) and ; "The Sparrow's Nest" (WPW I, 227). (CL II #439. See 1802: j 92. See 1802:148, 166 for TP's Paris letters.) 98. May 9 | DW copies "The Leech Gatherer" and other poems for STC. She says, "bad news of Coleridge." W begins "Stanzas ; Written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's 'Castle of Indo lence'"— about himself and STC (completed May 11— see 1802: ^ 101). (DWJ I, 145.)25 99. [1802], May 9 j SC, [apparently ill with influenza,] has a strange sen-; sation that the baby on her arm [probably Derwent] is really two babies, and that she has two breasts on one side. (CN l| #1188 and n.) 24None of these plans is realized. 25see Moorman I, 544-46 for a good discussion of this poem. (DWJ I, 145.) (1802)“ 302 100. May 10 ( i / i RS writes Charles Danvers: Received word from SC— | STC is getting well; no word, of his separation from his j wife; STC's gossip about his domestic problems. (NL 277.) 1 W continues to work on his poem begun the previous j day on himself and STC (.see 1802:98) . DW writes to STC. j (DWJ I, 145.) s ; t 101. May 11 ! W completes the poem about STC and himself begun May j 9 (see 1802:98). (DWJ I, 145.) ! 102. May 12 (-May 13) | STC arrives at the W's in the evening of May 12, has | walked, looks "palish," but is not much tired. STC, W, DW j sit up till 1;00 a.m.; W goes to bed, STC, DW sit up to gether till 2:15. STC sleeps in the sitting-room. (He goes home the next day; see 1802:103.) (DWJ I, ,146.) 103. May 13 STC intends to leave the W's in the morning, does not; leave till after tea. W, DW go with him as far as the plan- tations by the roadside descending to Wytheburn. STC does j not look well when they leave him. (DWJ X, 146.) 104. May 14 W, DW walk in Brother's wood^G. DW sits on her "last; summer seat, the mossy stone," notices W's. "unemployed" seat beside her, and "the space between, where - Coleridge I has so often lain." Later, W, DW write to STC, send bread and frocks (for Derwent— see DWJ for May 7) to the STC's (DWJ I, 147.) 105. May 15 j W, DW receive a "melancholy letter" from STC. It dis-f tresses DW very much; she resolves to go to Keswick the folr lowing day, but does not go (see DWJ X, 148 for May 16) . j (DWJ X, 147-48.) 106. May 17 (-May 19) I ......DW goes to-STC's May 17, hears a lark and a thrush 26a woods near Dove Cottage. There is no indication j of how it received its name. r ........ "..... ~.. ' (1802) 303 : ! ■ i singing near STC’s house. The Bancrofts are there when she j 'arrives, [She has come to discuss STC’s plan for the W’s toj move into Greta Hall.] (She stays till May 19.) (DWJ I, ; 148.) | 107. May 18 STC is unwell. Froude and the Wilkinsons call (see DWJM 126 n; EY #172 n2, p. 363). STC, DW walk in the eve- j ning in the garden. (DWJ I, 148.) 108. May 19 ; j i DW and STC leave Keswick together, [DW evidently on her way home.] They meet W near the six-mile stone. All 1 sit by the roadside for awhile, then go to Wytheburn water, i STC’s bowels are bad. [STC apparently leaves them] and W, j DW return to Grasmere from there. Arriving home, they pack j some books for STC before supper. (DWJ I, 148.) 109. May 20 W, DW receive a letter from STC, saying that he wishes' them not to go to Keswick. (DWJ I, 148-49.)27 110. May 22 (-May 24) W, DW, out for a walk, meet STC sitting under Sara's rock. They sit a long time under the wall of a sheepfold; have "some interesting melancholy talk" about STC's private ; affairs. STC goes home with W, DW to supper, [evidently stays till May 24.] Letter from SH. (DWJ I, 149.) 2 8 j 111. [May 23] DW, STC sit together in the orchard all morning. [STC, W,j DW walk in Bainriggs after tea. STC goes to Sara ! and Mary-Points, joins W, DW on White Moss. (DWJ I, 149.) 27"This- letter must have been written immediately af- ! ter D. W. left Keswick [see 1802:108.]. There had been dis- 1 cussion of a plan for the Wordsworths to go and live at Kes wick; D. W. was opposed to it and had evidently while at j Keswick brought Coleridge round to her view." (DWJM 127 n.)i They are still discussing the plan, however, on June 10 (see 1802:121). I 28"This discussion probably centers in the Wordsworth^ intention of sharing Greta Hall or taking Brow Top house. i Shortly thereafter DW writes Mrs. Coleridge, has an unsatis-; factory response." (EY #172 .$.) j : ' . . - . . . . . . . . . . - .. . . . . . . . . ' (1802) 304 ] I ■ ! J112. May 24 j ; STC is ready to leave Grasmere, W, and DW with him, j but they are prevented by the arrival of Miss Taylor and j Miss Stanley. Later W, DW, STC walk to the top of the Rays.; |[STC evidently leaves, carrying a letter from DW to MH.] bw writes to STC after he is gone. (DWJ I, 149.) I 113. [May] 25 I W, DW receive a short note from STC. (DWJ I, 149.) 114. [June 1] W, DW receive a short note and gooseberries from STC. | (DWJ I, 151.) 115. June 3 I STC writes his brother George at Ottery Saint Mary: Glad to hear from Mrs. Froude that the family is well (see 1802:107); STC's improved health. STC's family is well, except SC, who is pregnant again. The French Concordat. (CL II #440.) 116. [1802, early summer] STC writes SH: Anecdote of Hartley? Hartley's vivid imagination. Calls SH his "best Love." (CL II #441.) 117. [1802, early summer] ; STC writes SH [from Keswick]: Hartley and Derwent. (CL II #442.) 118. June 6 i ! W, DW receive letters from STC, SH. (DWJ I, 154.) 119. June 7 I , i DW writes to SC, [setting her mind at rest on the sub-; ject of the three W's moving to Greta Hall after W's mar- ! riage to MH.] DW recognizes that this is an unwise plan (see 1802:125). (DWJ I, 154.) 120. June 8 j [STC is just possibly at the Clarksons' at Eusemere on this day, or possibly he is visited by one or both of them.]j At least on this date he quotes Mr. Clarkson on the differ- | ence inproportion of .cow and bull calves in different ____ r “ ' ' ' (18027 305 ~ ' years (CN I #1197). [Possibly on the way there or back, he makes the observations of nature recorded CN I #1199, 1200, | 11201.] I I On this day too STC hides in the shelter of a rock j facing Grisedale Tarn, the spray falling on him like rain j |as the wind whips the water into waves. He watches the j |setting sun-formed rainbow in the spray across the beck near ithe tarn. (CN I #1204.) j i 121. June 10 (-June 12) I I i STC walks to Grasmere over Grisedale, is attacked by a cow, arrives at Grasmere with the branch of mountain ash [used to ward off the cow.] (He stays till June 12 (see 1802:123). [During his visit he and DW talk about SC and ; the Vi's proposed lodging at Greta Hall. DW is still against it.] (DWJ I, 156; EY #172.) : 122. June 11 j i STC, W, go for a walk at Grasmere. (DWJ I, 156.) 123. June 12 STC leaves for Keswick before dinner. W, DW go with him to the Rays, turn back because of the rain. DW remarks j that STC "would be sadly wet, for a furious shower came on I just when we parted." W, DW receive a letter from SH. i (DWJ I, 156.) 124. [June, between June 12-23] i ; i [STC possibly visits James Losh at Woodside, near Car-! lisle, sometime during June, probably between the 12th and the 23rd, to take him the Carlisle Cathedral library books j that Losh later returned on July 2.] (CN I #1429 and n; DWJi 166, 156, 162, 163; CN I #1332.)29 125. June 14 I DW writes to STC. Receives a letter from SH, writes I to her: DW's illness; STC's recent visit; DW's decision against moving into Greta Hall. DW's opinion of SC— "the I lightest weakest silliest womanI" STC left Sat (June 12— see 1802:123).. (DWJ I, 157; EY #172.) i 2^This suggestion is Kathleen Coburn's. It certainly I seems plausible, though there seems to be no good reason for; believing that CN I #1429 was not just as plausibly made on i the Scottish tour in August of 1803. j | - -.............-......... ..- - .............--- ... -............... ...... (1802) 306] i ! Il26. June 15 j ! I I ! W, DW receive a letter from STC, also one from SH to | jSTC, which W does not read. They also receive a letter j jfrom Josiah Wade of Bristol, [evidently for STC also,] as W does not read it either. (DWJ I, 158.) 127. June 18 ! W, DW receive a short letter from STC. (DWJ I, 159.) 128. June 19 | i DW recounts STC's tale of the old Quaker lady who, be-j cause there was no Quaker meeting at Keswick, used to go a- I lone to the meeting-house and have her own worship service. - She says STC told them this "the last time he was here." ! (DWJ I, 160; see 1802:121.) 129. June 21 | Sophia Lloyd writes Thomas Manning: "Coleridge has been spending the winter in London— We have heard that he j with William Wordsworth and his sister propose spending the j summer at Montpelier..." (see 1802:38). (LM 73. See ML 82;' 1802:180.)30 130. [Summer, 1802] | The third edition of LB is published. (Thomas J. | Wise, Two Lake Poets (London, 1927), 10; GCL 87.) 131. June 22 j W goes to Eusemere; DW resolves to go after him, but j [evidently does not.] She receives a letter from STC, puts j ;up a parcel for him. (DWJ I, 163.) 132. June 23 (-24) i ! ! STC and John Leslie (see DWJM 141n) arrive at Grasmere just as DW is lying down after dinner. STC brings DW a let ter from W, who is safely in Eusemere. STC, DW go with Les-j lie to the boat house. STC stays for supper, STC, DW sit up! till 1:00 a.m. (STC spends the night, leaves the next day.)| 30sophia is somewhat behind the times. STC has been I back from London since Mar 15 (see 1802:56). W, DW went not; to Montpelier but to Calais; STC, of course, did not go with1 them. ! [ (1802)307“ ! 1133. June 24 I i STC leaves Grasmere for home; DW walks with him half way up the Rays. W returns from Eusemere. (DWJ I, 163.) | ;134. [June 293 ($June 30) STC, W arrive at Grasmere 11:30 p.m., talk till afterj 12:00. (STC leaves the next day.) (DWJ I, 164; see 1802: I 135.)31 ' ! i I 135. June 30 j : I STC leaves Grasmere for home. W, DW walk with him part of the way up the Rays. They do not go far, but sit 'together for a few minutes before they part. DW writes to ' STC after tea. (DWJ I, 164-65.) 136. July 1 W, DW receive a letter from STC, from Keswick. (DWJ I, 166.) | STC writes George Coleridge: The family physical and I emotional make-up; STC's improved health; STC's changing o- j pinions regarding the establishment of the Church of Eng land. (CL II #443.) 137. July 2 DW writes to STC. (DWJ I, 166.) i 138. [July 5J DW copies the "Leech-Gatherer" for STC, writes to him. (DWJ I, 166.)32 31A page has been torn out before this entry, probably with entries for June 26, 27, 28. These entries probably recorded either a trip of W's to Keswick, after which STC I returned with him to Grasmere on this day, or a visit of STC to the W's, with W, STC just returning from a walk. The former assumption is the more probable, because of the late-j ness of the hour and the fact that DW has not been along. (DWJ I, 164.) 32dw's dates from here to July 9 are one day behind the correct ones. Following de Sdlincourt, I have given thel correct dates. I (1802) 308 I jl3.9. [July 6J W, DW receive a letter from STC. (DWJ I, 167.) ! . . I 140. [July 7] | DW writes to STC. (DWJ I, 167.) j i • ! 141. [July 8] | W, DW receive a letter from STC, also one from SH for | STC. (DWJ I, 168.) 142. July 9 (-July 12) ! i W, DW arrive at STC's July 9, (leave July 12, on their way to Calais to see Annette Vallon, via Gallow Hill and the Hutchinsons.) (DWJ I, 168-69; CL II #444.) STC meets them! ■at Sara's Rock, and they reach Keswick just at tea-time. j [W, STC,j DW, call at Calvert's in the evening. (DWJ I I, 168.) 143. July 11 W, DW remain at STC's on a wet day. (DWJ I, 168.) 144. [July 12J W, DW leave STC's for Eusemere; STC, unwell, walks with them six or seven miles. They have a melancholy part- 1 ing after sitting together in silence by the road-side. I(DWJ I, 168-69.)33 145. July 13 STC writes William Sotheby from Keswick: Received a letter from him from Longmor (unpreserved); Sotheby's past visit to Keswick (see 1802:57); weather and scenery; on j translating a poem by Gesner. "...a great Poet must be...a ; profound Metaphysician. He may not have it in logical co herence, in his Brain and Tongue; but he must have it by Tact...." W, DW left yesterday on their way to Yorkshire (see 1802:144); STC's part in the LB Preface, and his opin- j ion of it, expressive of a certain degree of dissatisfac- • tion. STC family .well. (CN I #444; GCL 66.) 33d w's dates are wrong for this and the following eri- i tries, till Thurs July 29. With de S61incourt I have given j ithe correct dates. I ------ - " ~ ---- (1802) 309 146. July 16; 29; 31; Aug 1; Sept 24; Oct 4; 6 W, DW arrive Gallow Hill July 16, proceed to London, I |arriving July 29. At Canterbury on July 31 they see the | 'parson*s house, "which would just have suited Coleridge." j Arrive Calais Aug 1, see Annette; Fri Sept 24 they are back j |at Gallow Hill. Mon Oct 4, W marries MH. All return to j iGrasmere Oct 6. (DWJ I, 171-76, 183.) | i ; 147. July 19 ! ; i STC writes William Sotheby from Keswick: Sotheby's j translation of Gesner's poem. STC encloses a preliminary revised version of "Dejection Ode"; the sunset at Keswick. I (CL II #445. See GCL 85.) 148. July 20 I ! i TP writes STC from Paris: TP's channel crossing; des-- cription of Calais, Boulogne. His meeting with TW; impres- : sion of the Apollo Belvedere statue. His experiences in Paris, meeting with Tom Paine. Plans to remain in Paris for six weeks, then to Switzerland, possibly winter in Italy. (Poole II, 83-87. See 1802:97. See 1802:166 for TP's next letter.) 149. July 25 RS writes from Bristol to STC: The progress of his history of Portugal. Very little work on poetry of late. CCS II, 184-85.) i 150. July 26 i The weather at Keswick is miserable. (CL II #448.) STC writes John Prior Estlin from Keswick: STC's im- | proved health; "at home all is Peace and Love." The Greek construction of some New Testament passages; STC's ideas on Christian doctrine. (CL II #447.) W, DW leave Gallow Hill for London, on their way to France. (CL II #448 nl, p. 825.) 151. July 27 STC writes SH from Keswick: Weather mild; STC waits j ''only for a truly fine Day to walk off to St. Bees." En- ! closure: "an advertisement in the Whitehaven Paper of today r-concerning Lord Lowther's Farms" for Tom Hutchinson.34 sc ! 34only eleven miles from Keswick. Tom and Sara never moved there. ..... . i (1802) 310” i • i i '"poorly," the children "tolerable"; weather upsetting STC; an anecdote concerning the children. "O dear Sara!-— how dearly I love you!" (CL II #448.) ;152. July 29 j ; ! STC writes RS from- Keswick: Congratulations on the birth of RS's son Robert. The publication of Estlin's ser mons. STC's planned book "Concerning Tythes and Church Es tablishment." 35. The LB Preface— "half a child of my own brain....I rather suspect that some where or other there is a radical Difference in our theoretical opinions respecting Poetry— " (see GCL 66). The spelling of SC's name. RS's projected history of Portugal; encouragement to work on Madoc. "...all my poetic Genius...is gone." STC, SC: their improved relationship. "...our virtues and our vices j are exact antitheses....Never, I suppose, did the stern j Match-maker bring together two minds so utterly contrariant ! in their primary and organical constitution." STC's im proved health. RS should move into Greta Hall; the libra- | ries in the district. SC's health poor; the children well, i (CL II #449.) | i ' 153. Aug 1 (-Aug 9) j i STC leaves Keswick Sun morning Aug 1 after church on a walking tour south through the Lake Country; (returns Aug i 9). (CN I #1207-28, 1242, 1251; CL II #450-53.) Aug 1 he | notices Skiddaw, sees the Borrowdale Mountains behind him. From Portinscale south he passes Swinside Mountain and New- i lands Beck, finds Derwent Fells wild. Describes Buttermere i as in "a singular embracement of rock." Pushes on south, j making his own path; sees Red Pike Mountain rising ahead and to the left, Melbreak on the right. On a hill SW of Butter-! mere, he turns and looks back over Newlands and Buttermere. i The sun sets as he ascends the hill. Passes [probably Star-; ling Doddj on the right. Sees Fl[o]utern Tarn36; behind j him, Buttermere and the mountains, before him, the sea. j Spends this night with John Ponsonby37 at Long Moor. (CN I j #1207; CL II #450, 453.) -^Another uncompleted project. I S^Does jjq mistake Bleaberry Tarn for Floutern Tarn? If the tarn is on his left as Dodd Mountain is on his right, as the CN seems to indicate, then the tarn.he sees is Blea berry— more likely too because of its proximity to his pro bable location at this time, and to Buttermere. j 37a friend of Mr. Jackson's, landlord of Greta Hall, j (1802)311 |154. Aug 2 1 STC spends the greater part of his day at long Moor. He and John Ponsonby go to the head of Erinerdale Water. STC leaves Long Moor after tea, walks by: the River Enna to Kirtskill, St. Bees? spends the night at St. Bees. (CL II #450; CN I #1208.) 155. Aug 3 In the morning at St. Bees, STC visits the church and school ruins, walks to the beach. [He evidently tra vels toj and spends the night at Egremont, is impressed by the castle. (CN I #1211; CL II #450.) 156. Aug 4 STC leaves Egremont in the morning for Calder Abbey. Sees the sea on his left, Seat Allian and Scafell on his right.38 Sees Calder Abbey, Ponsonby Hall and Calder Bridge Village. At noon he arrives at. Bone Wood, at the public house kept by Manson. Passes through Gosforth and 'turns east, crosses the River Blerig and walks toward the Irt, where he sees behind him (SW) a view of the sea and ahead the mountains around Wastdale. Cannot see Wast Water because of a low ridge (CN I #1211,1212; CL II #450). Comes to Wast Water, admires the view. Observes Scafell and Yewbarrow and Great Gavel at the head of the lake (CN I #1213). Spends the night' at T. Tyson's, Wastdale Head. (CN I #1214.) RS writes from Bristol to STC: The pros and cons of moving into Greta Hall. STC's projected essays on poets. W and STC's personal over-valuation of LB. The people RS saw after STC left London. The missionary success of the Jesuits. The spelling of SC's name. (CS II, 189-90.) 157. Aug 5 STC leaves Wastdale Head, walks around Wast Water on the NW side, down the other side. Sees Burnmoor Tarn, climbs Scafell, where he writes to SH, and [perhaps writes his "Hymn Before Sunrise" (PW I, 377; see 1802:181? GCL 88)J . (CN I #1215-17.) Descends Scafell. Climbs a rock tower above Deep Ghyll. (CN I #1218. See CN I #1218n.) Climbs down past the "fountain streams of the Esk." Tra- 38jie must either be turned around here, and facing north, the direction from which he has come, or else, as K. Coburn says (and more likely), f he has transposed left and right. (See CN I #1212n.) — - ... *.............. -- . --- -(1802) 312 i i ye Is to Broughton, where he stops briefly [for dinner?] at 'Joseph Towner's public house. Travels on via Langdale to Taw House (.CN I #1220 and n) at Boon Wood, [where he appar ently spends the night.] j I . 1 ! 158. Aug 6 | STC leaves Boon Wood, travels NW through Langdell j Fell (CN I #1220). Back at Taw House in Boon Wood for lunch! jwith John Vicars Towers39 (CN I #1221). On into Eskdale (CN I #1222-23); passes Devoke Water, where he describes the sound of bird wings in flight (CN I #1224-25; cf. PW I, |181). On to Ulpha Kirk, a "most romantic" vale (CN I j#1225) . Spends the night at Ulpha Kirk (CL II #452) . | 159. Aug 7 STC climbs up Dunnerdale Fell, where he makes plans for a poem to be called "The Soother of Absence" (CN I #1225. See CN I #1541n; A. P. Rossiter's letter in TLS, May 8, 1953). Loses his way and finds himself back at j Ulpha, where he is given directions by an old man and his j daughter. Proceeds by [a way that K. Coburn describes as ! "topographically impossible to follow," but that seems to be through Dunnerdale Fells, to Broughton Mills, where he dines' at Casson's Inn; proceeds to Torva (modern Torver?) and Con-; iston, where he spends the night.] (CL II #453; CN I #1227- 28.) | 160. Aug 8 ] STC leaves Coniston, sees Coniston Water, proceeds to i Old Brathay where he spends the night with Charles Lloyd. Passing through Ambleside, he mails his letter to SH. (CL II #453; CN I #1228.) 161. Aug 9 i STC leaves Old Brathay, proceeds via Grasmere to Kes- | wick, where he finds letters from TP and RS, two from SH (CL II #453) . He writes RSj His tour of the Lake Country. j Arrangements for RS and family to live at Greta Hall; STC ! family well. (CL II #452.) ; I 162. [1802, shortly after Aug 9 to c Sept 1] j Charles and Mary Lamb visit STC for around three weeks1 [[during this time.] (CL II #451n; LL I #128, 129.) During | 39of the Towers family who were vicars at nearby Boot I in the eighteenth .century. (CN I #l219n.) .... j (1802)313 their visit, they climb Helvellyn, Skiddaw (see LL I #128) . lit is possible that STC's. "An Ode to the Rain" (PW I, 832) "was written on the morning after the unexpected i arrival of Charles and Mary Lamb at Greta Hall in Aug, ! 1802" (EHC n2, PW I, 382-83. See GCL 89.) j 163. Aug 10 STC writes to SH [from Keswick]: Received her two . letters on arriving home; did not write sooner because he was away. His German boxes may be lost. The sunset. W, j DW and their trip to France; Caroline Vallon. Expects ; them to be with SH by Mon (Aug 16); the STC children and ! SC. (CL II #453.) 164. [1802, probably Aug, between Aug 10 and c Aug 12] STC writes to SH [from Keswick]: The clearing after i a storm at Keswick. (CL II #454.) 165. [1802, c Aug 12] STC writes from Keswick to RS in Bristol: The iden tity of cow pox and smallpox. (CL II #455.) 166. Aug 22 TP writes STC from Paris: Disapppinted that STC has not written since his July 20 letter (see 1802:148). To morrow to Switzerland. TP will probably return in c two months. The presence of James Fox in France. TP's visit to Versailles, Trianon. The death of Marie Antoinette. TP's progress in learning French. (Poole II, 87-90. See 1802:255 for STC's reply.)40 167. [1802, Aug 24] RS writes from Bristol to John Rickman: RS's de cision to move in with STC at Keswick. (NL 283.) 168. Aug 25 STC begins a letter to SH: His activities of the ; day. At 10:30 a.m. he set off for Newlands; visit to "But-i termere Halse Fell" (Moss Force). [Probably he was with Lamb. See 1802:162.] (CL II #456 and headnote. See TLS 28 Sept, 1951, A. P. Rossiter letters. Cf. PW I, ,379.) 40For a further account of TP's experiences in Paris, see Poole II, 81-82; for his visit to Switzerland, see Pool© ‘ II, 90-91. For Belgium and Holland, see Poole II, 91-99. .......... '...... -............... (1802) 314 | ' i ' ! STC receives a letter from William Sotheby. (CL II | *457.) ‘ ! ! 169. Aug 26 j STC writes to William Sotheby, . in answer to his letter received the day before: Sotheby's Orestes (1802). Lamb j goes to Penrith "next week." Quotes some lines later picked up and used by Bowles (PW I, 73, first pub MP Dec 12, 1797; j Bowles' "Coombe-Elleri," 11. 36-37); general discussion of j poetic meter and technique. (CL II #457.) At this point STC receives a second letter from Sothe by, dated Aug 16, and continues: Will prod Clarkson to j ’ check on the Orestes at Penrith. Suggestion of the story of Medea and King Pelias as subject for a tragedy. W's meeting1 with Sotheby. STC's Aug 5 climb up Scafell. (CL II #457.) ; j 170. Aug 29 STC walks to Lodore to see the falls: "the first and i best thing of the whole Lake Country." (CL II #456.) 171. [1802, Aug 29-Sept 4] Charles and Mary Lamb leave Keswick [probably sometime during this week.] (CL II #457.) 172. [1802, probably just after Aug 29, Aug 30 or 31] STC completes his letter to SH begun Aug 25 (see 1802:; 168): His trip to Lodore (see 1802:170) ; comparison of Lo- | dore, Buttermere Halse Fall, and Scale Force. (CL II #456.)' 173. [1802, Sept, before Sept 19] STC is visited by Miles Peter Andrews [in Sept of 1802.] (CL II #460.) With him are Sir Charles and Lady Broughton and-Captain Topham.41 ^ ■ b ' M i l e s peter Andrews (d 1814), the dramatist, was a j constant companion of Lord Lyttleton, whose ghost he said appeared to him on the night of his (Lyttleton's) death telling him 'all was over.' Lyttleton had dreamed, 24 Nov ! 1799, that a bird flew into his room, changed into a woman, j and told him he had three days to live. Three days later, : having told various friends of the dream and made light of it, he died on going to bed. Both tales became current coin in 1779, and as Lyttleton, an avowed Deist, had some appre- j hensions concerning a future state, the story was bandied about in conversation and theological controversy. Miles (1802) 315“ 117.4. {Possibly between Sept 1 and 9, 1802] I ■ ■ • STC has the sensation, on passing a mountain, that jthe ghosts of the mountain seize his body as he passes, so thait he becomes a ghost himself. (CN I #1241. Cf. CN I #523 and n.) STC records a notebook entry about a "blind Arab lis tening in the wilderness" that is similar to other referen- 'ces— his July 13, 1802 letter to Sotheby (CL II #444) ; "Love's Apparition and Evanishmerit" (1833): PW I, 488-89; "The Blossoming of the Solitary Date-tree": PW I, 396 (1805 or earlier). (CN I #1244.) 175. Sept 2 STC writes RS [from Keswick] : Arrangements for the RS's to live at Greta Hall; why they should not come until j the end of Nov. Christ's supposed authorship of The' Wisdom of Solomon. The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. (CL II #458.) 176. 177. "The Picture" first published. (ME' Sept 6, 1802; PW I, 369-74; GCL 9 0.) 178. Sept 8 Lamb writes STC from London: Lamb's impressions of the mountains c Keswick; STC's poem "The Picture" in MP (of ; Sept 6); the fatigue of Helvellyn; request for information regarding Derwent. (LL I #128; GCL 90.) 179. Sept 9 STC writes "To Matilda Betham from a Stranger." (PW I, 374-76;. GCL 91. ) Peter Andrews visited Coleridge in Sept 1802; the story appears to have preceded him, and was in fact very well known." (CN I #1183n.) The Broughtons and Captain Topham are unidentified. [1802, before Sept 6] STC writes "The Picture." (PW I, 369-74; GCL 90.) Sept 6 r -... -..... • : --------- (1802)' 316 i s i i • -I i 18 0. Sept 10 j i i ! Thomas Manning writes Lamb from Marseilles: "Where's J the mighty Coleridge?" Manning has heard that STC and W j Imay come to Montpelier Csee 1802:129). (ML 82.) j 181. Sept 10 ! \ ... t STC writes William Sotheby [from Keswick]: Orestes j still has-not arrived. Sotheby's choosing of STC to criti- ! icize the Orestes. The heart and intellect of a poet must be combined; criticism of Bowles for want of the latter. STC's "hymn" poured forth "involuntarily" when on top of Scafell j jAug 5 ("Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni").42 | The gods and goddesses of the Greeks and their relationship j to the angels of the Jews. Hebrew and Christian Platonic ! theology. CCL II #459? GCL 88.) | 182. Sept 11 "Hymn Before Sunrise" first published. (MP Sept 11, 1802; GCL 88.) 183. [1802,] Sept [12] DW writes to MH: She intends to write STC regarding the arrival of JW. (EY #177.) : i 184. [1802, Sept 17 or shortly before (-Sept 18)J t STC goes to Brayton Hall, the seat of Sir Wilfrid Law-i son? (returns Sept 18)... On the night he is gone, the parcel with William Sotheby's Orestes arrives at Keswick. (CL II #460. See 1802:169, 181.) 185. Sept 17 "The Keepsake" first published. (MP Sept 17, 1802; i PW I, 345-46; GCL 70.) 186. [1802, Sept 18J STC returns in the evening to Keswick from Brayton Hall, calls at the house of an ill friend on the way home • • (CL II #461). Finds the parcel containing Sotheby's Orestes at Keswick. Has a slight attack of fever on his return; 42 1 PW I, 377. See A. P. Rossiter, TLS 28 Sept and 26 j Oct 1951 for a discussion of the plagiarism involved in thisj hymn. See also CL II #459 nl, p. 865? .DA 26? CN I #1316; j 1802:261. The standard discussion on the subject is Adrien. . i — - - --- ------- (1802) 317 I ! I i I I jtakes muriatic acid. (CL II #460.) I " ' i 187. Sept 19 j STC writes to. William Sotheby from Keswick: The par- I cel containing the Orestes arrived Fri; STC received it up-! ion returning from Brayton Hail last evening (see 1802:186).i Mr. Pocklington's house "Barrow." Suggestion that Sotheby | ishaire the other half of Greta Hall. Sir Wilfrid Lawson's > llibrary. The recent visitors (see 1802:1733) . (CL II #460.)! 188. Sept 20 STC receives a letter from Basil Montagu. (CL II #461.) 189. Sept 21 STC writes Basil Montagu:- Received .his letter last night. Montagu's Selections from the' Works of Taylor, Hooker, Hall/ and Lord Bacon. STC ‘ 'plagued to death with a swarm of visitors.Montagu's marital happiness; STC's trip to Brayton Hall; his illness; Derwent and Hartley. (CL II #461.) 190. [1802, before Sept 23] STC writes "A Good, Great Man." (PW I, 381; GCL 92.) 191. Sept 23 i "A Good, Great Man" first published. (MP Sept 23, 1802; PW I, 381; GCL 92.) 192. [1802, before Sept 24] STC writes "Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath." (PW I, 381-82; GCL 93.) 193. Sept 24 ; "Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath" first pub- Bonjour's published dissertation, Coleridge's 'Hymn Before Sunrise' (Lausanne, 1942). ^3Perhaps Sir John Leslie was one of the visitors. (See CL II #464. See 1802:28n for John Leslie.) The others! are mentioned CL II #460 (see 1802:173). I { ■ ■ —..-..... -.-.- ......... ------ (1802) 318 j ! lished. (MP Sept 24, 1802? PHI, 381-82; GCL 93.) j Lamb writes Thomas Manning: His recent three-week j visit to the Lakes (see 1802:162); climbing Skiddaw, wading, jup the bed of Lodore. (LL I #129. See 1802:200 for Man- i Ining's reply.) i |194. Sept 27 j "Westphalian Song" first published. (MP Sept 27, 11802; PW I, 326; GCL 59.) ! | i 195. Sept [28] j ST^3 .writes William Sotheby44: Keswick in the snow. | Hartley and Derwent playing in the snow; a plan to give Sotheby "a History of my impressions" of Orestes— but the letter is incomplete at this point. (CL II #462.) j STC is [probably ill during the remainder of this day.] (CL II #463.) 196. Sept 29 j i DW writes Mrs. John Marshall from Gallow Hill: After! W's Oct 4 marriage and return to Grasmere, SH and Tom Hut- j chinson are expected to spend some time at Grasmere. (EY #178.)45 197. [18]02 Oct [1] STC writes William Sotheby: STC's criticism of ! Orestes; reference to his incomplete Sept 28 letter; W's j coming wedding (Oct 4); "extremely busy" in work for MP? his recent attack of fever (see 1802:186, 195). (CL II #463.) 198. [1802], Oct 3 i STC, [evidently home in Keswick,] recounts some strange dreams, at which he observes he felt no surprise. \ (CN I #1250.) ; 44Apparently never posted. See CL II #462 headnote. j 45sh reaches Penrith before Nov 4, when STC spends j time with her there. DW expects her to be at Keswick by Nov 8 (DWJ I, 186), and she goes to Grasmere soon after that, I probably early in Dec (Moorman I, 577 n6? DWJ I, 186? 1802: ! 260). j f ............ ’ . (1802) 319 I ! ;199. Oct 4 ! '' ' I 1 i The revised version of "Dejection: An Ode" appears in MP on this date. (Cf. CL II #438; GCL 85.) | W marries MH on this day, the anniversary of STC's own Wedding. (CL II #463? DWJ I, 176.) 200. Oct 6 ! Thomas Manning writes Lamb: Manning's favorable opin-! ;ion of the Lake Country— "the choicest spot in Europe." i(ML 84. See 1802:193.) j 201. Oct 7 "An Ode to the Rain" first published. (MP Oct 7, 1802; PW I, 382-84; GCL 89.) 202. Oct 9 ( • ; Lamb writes STC (in Latin): STC's "Hymn before Sun- Rise, in the Vale of Chamouni" (PW I, 376-80; GCL 88): W's ; marriage; STC's contemplated attack on America. (LL I #130.) ; I 203. Oct 11 Lamb writes STC: Lamb's offer to supply Stuart with epigrams and paragraphs in STC's name. (LL I #131.) 204. [Oct 11 (-Oct] 13) MW, W, DW go out walking, [apparently expect STC to be; at their home when they return.] He is not, but comes after dinner. DW says he is well, but does not look so. (He ! stays till [Oct] 13.) (DWJ I, 183.) j 205. Oct 12 j STC, W, DW, MW walk to Rydal. (DWJ I, 183.) j 206. [Oct] 13 f-Oct 16; Oct 17] j W, MW, DW go home with STC to Keswick on Oct 13, "Mrs.; C. not being at home." (MW, DW leave Oct 16, W Oct 17; see ■ 1802:209). CDWJ I, 183.) 207. Oct 14 | ; , i I [STC, W, MW,J DW, go in the evening to Calvert's; stay for supper. (DWJ I, 183.) ' ' " ' ( 1 8 0 2 ) 320 j 1208. Oct 15 j i . . . ■ J ; [STC, -W, MW,J DW, walk to Lord William Gordon's. | (DWJ I, 183.) ! : . • I 209. Oct 16 j : j DW, MW return home to Grasmere from Keswick. W goes j with them almost to Nadel Fell; returns to STC's. (DWJ I, ! 183.) • ! "Answer to a Child's Question" first published. (MP ! Oct 16, 1802; PW I, 386; GCL 86a.) 210. Oct 17 i W returns to Grasmere from Keswick. (DWJ I, 184.) ! 211. Oct 19 j "The Day-Dream" first published. (MP Oct 19, 1802; PW I, 386-87; GCL 86b.) STC recounts the effect from within his house of a ! Storm with lightning and thunder. (CN I #1251.) I 212o Oct 20 STC supposes that this is his thirtieth birthday. It ; is a windy, showery day, with patches of sunshine. (CN I #1252.) | [STC perhaps receives a letter from TW.] STC writes to TW from Keswick: His belief that today j is his birthday [it is not till tomorrow]. Thanks for the j Wedgwood support. Improved health; problems with his eyes. ■ Domestic disharmony, but recent improvement. His work on MP— three days a week46» "in a very few weeks" he will pub- j lish "a Volume on the Prose Writings of Hall, Milton, & Tay-- lor— and shall immediately follow it up with an Essay on the writing of Dr. Johnson, & Gibbon— ." Finished by Jan next.4/ The "wretched" epigrams he has been sending to MP j lately (see GCL 86a,b). "I will never give anything to the i 46"In addition to a number of epigrams and poems which! appeared in the MP in Sept and Oct, Coleridge published a j series of twelve articles between 21 Sept & 9 Nov 1802. See Essays on His Own Times, II 478-692." (CL II #464 n2r pYSTfcV) ^Neither these projects is ever realized. j (1802) 321 ! world in propia persona, in my own name, which I have not 'tormented with the file." STC would like to be TW's com- j panion abroad. (CN II #464.)48 j 213. Oct, 1802, [probably c 20-25] j [Hartley Coleridge is apparently visiting at the j Clarksons' in Eusemere.] (CN I #1253.) j 214. Oct 23 j • i Lamb writes STC: Acceptance of STC's suggestion for | Lamb to versify STC's prose translations from German poet ry; STC's political essays in MP. (LL I #132.) ! 215. [Possibly Oct 25, 1802] \ ' * | STC records a note on the injury that has resulted from the supposed incompatibility of such qualities as judgment and imagination; taste, good sense and feeling. This subject is developed in more detail in BL chapters XIV and XV, especially BL II, 270. (CN I #1255 and n.) 216. Oct 28 STC sees at Keswick a glorious sunset "directly op posite, in a straight line to our door." (CN I #1257.) 217. Oct 30 W goes to STC's, arrives home at 4:00 p.m., with John Stoddart, whom he met on the way. (DWJ I, 184.) 218. Oct 31 (-Nov 2) W. John Stoddart go to STC's on Oct 31, (stay till Nov 2),49 AQ "In answer to this letter TW must have replied by a ! proposal that Coleridge should at once join him, doubtless j at Bristol." (Litchfield 117. See 1802:220.) 4^DWJ says that DW records this entry as Sat, Oct 30; j DWJM says she records it as Mon, Oct 31. DWJ is wrong on this point, DWJM correct, on the basis of a photostat in my possession of the DWJ facsimile for this date, in the Li brary of the University of Alberta in Edmonton. DW, of course, was wrong too— Oct 31 was a Sun in 1802, and the events described clearly took place on that day. ~.... ~..;...... ' ' ' (1802) 322 219. Nov 2 W returns from STC's, unwell. [John Stoddart is per haps with him.J (DWJ I, 185.) 220. Nov 3 | I ' i ; i | STC receives a letter from TW, [requesting him to j meet TW in Bristol immediately.] i STC writes TW from Keswick: STC will leave for Lon- I idon tomorrow, via Penrith, be in London on Sat (Nov 5) , j jleave Mon night for Bristol (Nov 7th), go to Cote House and | wait for TW Tues (Nov 8). STC's knowledge of French; his i ^relationship to the Wedgwoods; thanks for their assistance, j j(CL II #465. See 1802:227; Meteyard 160.) ! 221. Nov 4 (-Dec 24) On Nov 4 STC leaves Keswick on a trip to Bristol and | Wales, via London, with TW (see 1802:220; CN I #1261n) . TW | jfor some reason tries to stop him in London (see 1802:227). j He spends [probably Nov 12-c Nov 24] exploring Wales with TW and part of the time with Sally Wedgwood, leaving Dec 16 for Keswick, where he arrives Dec 24. (CN I #1261-1310; CL II ! #476. See 1802:232, 242, 254.) ;222. Nov 4 [-Nov 5] j i ! STC leaves Keswick [probably 4:30 a.m.] in a chaise j for Penrith, where he goes to the home of Elizabeth Monk- j house, SH's aunt, and sees SH there (CN I #1261, 1262). (SH is on her way to spend some time with SC at Keswick in STC's absence; see 1802:228). [Possibly on this day] STC attends ; :the annual Hunt-Feat at Culthwaite, seven miles from Pen- i rith. He completes at Penrith the letter to TW begun the ; day before (see 1802:220). (He leaves Penrith [probably Nov 5] for London.) (CN II #466. See 1802:225.) j ; Lamb writes to STC: Several books which Lamb is send-; ing to STC by the Kendal wagon .on Nov 5; (LL I #133. ) ; [Lamb probably sends STC some books via the Kendal j wagon on Nov 4.] j 223. [1802 Nov, after Nov 4, possibly after Nov 9] ; • ! j Lamb writes Thomas Manning: STC's attacks on Charles i James Fox in MP (Nov 4 and 9, 1802). (LL I #134.) | 224. Nov 5 | i DW Wfites to STC. (DWJ I, 185.) (1802)- 323 ! 225. [1802, Nov 5 (.-Nov 8) J i | STC leaves Penrith for London on [Nov 5, (arrives Nov i 8).] Spends the night of the 5th at [Leeming Lane.] His limbs are "crazed and feverous." (CN II #466.) j |226. [1802, Nov 6] j ' . . ! | STC, enroute to London, spends this night in Newark, i His limbs are ’ ’crazed and feverous" this night as well. I ; (CL II #466.) j227. Nov 7 | STC arrives at Stamford 2:00 p.m., takes the mail for| iLondon, where he arrives the following morning. (CN II ;#466.) | i TW writes one of the head clerks in York Street to leave messages for STC with Daniel Stuart and Humphry Davy,i jto prevent STC from leaving London for Bristol and the Wedgwoods. [The messages apparently do not reach STC.] (Meteyard 160. See 1802:220.) JW writes from London to DW: He takes MP regularly j to read STC— STC's letter to James Fox (MP, Nov 4). Sorry | to hear that SH has been unwell. Wishes he could see her.: at Grasmere. Has seen STC, who will write tomorrow. (JWE ! #33. See 1802:247.)50 j W, DW, MW receive a letter from STC that he is gone to London. (DWJ I, 185.) 228. [1802, Nov 8 (-between Nov 10 and 13)] STC arrives London [probably on Nov 8] at 5:30 a.m., goes to the Howells' in Covent Garden. Writes SC: His ;trip to London, [including probably the time spent with SH j at Penrith (see 1802:222)— which angers his wife exceeding-; !ly Csee CL II #466 headnote).] Plans to remain in London till the 10th or 11th, to see "nobody but Stuart and John Wordsworth." Closes with: "...try to love and be kind to those whom I love" [the W's and SH]. j j (STC remains in London till [between Nov 10 and 13,] | when he leaves for Bristol and TW (see 1802:230). While there [he may see Daniel Stuart,] certainly sees JW;/.see ' 1802:227, 247.) [He may, in fact, see JW on Nov 8 (see 1802:227n).] (CL II #466? CN I #1263? Meteyard 160-66.) J At least the last line of this letter must have ! jbeen written on the 8th, since STC did not arrive in London I jtill then (see 1802:228). 1 1229. Nov 8 1 i ! DW says, "Poor Coleridge! hope." (DWJ I, 186.) !230. 11802, c Nov 10-13] [STC leaves London, arrives at Bristol, where he j picks up TW for their trip through Wales.J (CN I #1263 and; n; CL II #468; Meteyard 160-66.) | 231. Nov 11 j ; ■ ' ! TW writes to TP: TW is enroute to meet STC at Cote I House. The projected hunting trip in South Wales, then the j visit to Stowey. TW's recent health problems. (Litchfield! 120-21.) 232. [1802, Nov 13] j [STC, TW, Sally Wedgwood probably leave on their trip ! to Wales on Nov 13.] j STC writes to SC from the New Passage to Wales: [Re- ! sponds to SC's upset letter over his time spent with SH at : Penrith} ; analyzes his own character , and her character as j it appears to him. (CL II #467, 468.) \ On landing, STC, TW proceed in a chaise to Usk, then to Abergavenny, where they spend the night. (CL II #468.) 233. Nov 14 STC, TW, Sally Wedgwood leave Abergavenny for Brecon, ! through the Vale of Usk. At Llanspadach (Llanspyddyd?), be tween Brecon and Trecastle, they notice "a large number of ! prodigious fine Yews in the Church Yard.1 ' (CN I #1263 and j n.) They proceed to Trecastle and Llandovery, where they j spend the night. (CL II #468.) j 234. Nov 15 ■ i STC, TW, Sally Wedgwood leave Llandovery, pass through Llandilo, Carmarthen, to Saint Clears, arriving 4:30 p.m. j They stay at the Blue Boar; STC remarks on the fire in the ! kitchen. (CN I #1265 and n; CL II #468.) TW writes to Josiah from Saint Clears: Clothing and ! success in hunting. STC's greetings. (Meteyard 163.) j 235. [Nov 16, 1802] j [Sally Wedgwood leaves STC, TW in the morning at Saint' Clears, returns to Cresselly.J j (1802)‘324 Sara [SH] is at Keswick, I; (1802) 325 j [STC, TW evidently spend the day at Saint Clears.] I STC writes SC from here: His letter [of Nov 13] from the 'New Passage (.see 1802:232); his trip thus far; Wales com pared to the Keswick area. STC's health; takes "once in j |24 hours...half a grain of purified opium, equal to 12 ; i drops of Laudanum— which is not more than [an] 8th part of j iwhat I took at Keswick"; ginger tea.Trip to Itaiy !doubtful. (CN I #1265, 1266; CL II #468; Meteyard 161-63.)J 236. [1802^3 Nov 17 STC, [TW] walk out from St. Clears to Larn (Llangy- nin?), passing through a deep vale, which STC describes in ! detail. (CN I #1266.) ; ! 237. [1802, between Nov 17 and 21] STC, [TW] visit a graveyard, which STC describes in some detail. (K. Coburn observes, "Some reconciliation of j ; life-and-death opposites— groundsel, fern, growing thorns, and tomtits, with a graveyard and tombs— is evidently in Coleridge's mind.") (CN I #1267 and n.) 238. [1802, between Nov 13-21, probably Nov 18 or 19] TW writes [his mother] from [Saint Clears]: TW, STC, j Sally W arrived [Saint Clears] on Mon [Nov 15th] ; Sally left Tues [Nov 16th] ; TW has heard from her today. His hunting experiences. Invitations to go to Cresselly; TW doesn't much want to go. A good companion in STC. (Mete- i yard 161-«63.) 52 239. Nov 21 (-Nov 22) At Saint Clears, STC writes SC: He and TW.are going : to Cresselly, will return to Saint Clears the next day.. STC's health; may go to Bodmin in Cornwall. (CL II #469.) SlgTC is attempting to break the opium habit. (But see 1802:240; 1803:144, 233 and n.) : . ! 52<riiis letter is undated in Meteyard, but because Sally Wedgwood left on Tuesday, and Tues was Nov 16 (the date of CL II #468), the letter must have been written af- jter Sally left and there had been time for TW to receive a [ letter from her. Therefore TW's letter was. probably not Iwritten before Nov 18. He does not mention the visit to Cresselly which took place Nov 21-22; in fact, such a trip j |is not even anticipated in TW's letter. Therefore the let-i jter was probably written two-three days before the Cresselly trip: Nov 18-19 seems,plausible............ r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -. . . - " - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -” ' — . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1802) 326 j . . I ' ' STC, TW leave Saint Clears, proceed'.-to Cresselly, [to I the Allens', the maternal grandparents of the Wedgwoods.J There they see the Tylers. (They spend the night at Saint Clears, leave the next day.) I | A letter from SC arrives Saint Clears just after they J leave. (CL II #470.) ! j i |240. Nov 22 (-Nov 23) I STC awakens ill at Cresselly. He and TW leave for | Saint Clears, arriving 1#30 p.m. STC is further upset by a ; letter from SC on reaching Saint Clears; takes laudanum. (STC, TW remain at Saint Clears,till the next day. See 1802:241.) (CN I #1270; CL II #469, 470.) 241. [1802, Nov 23] : I STC awakens at Saint Clears not quite well. He writes to SC: Trip to Cresselly and back (see 1802:239). SC's I health; she should get a nUrse. Her letter that prompted his of Nov 13. The link between his ideas and his feelings;, the basis of his love; her relationship to his friends; his i illness of the previous day. Leaving today for Narberth. I (CL II #470.) [STC and TW probably leave Saint Clears on this day, travel to Narberth, where they evidently spend the night at i the White Hart Inn (CN I #1272n). As STC is writing to CapH tain Luff for TW (see CN I #1270n), a dog falls into the ; room through the upper pane of the window.] (CN I #1270, 1272; Meteyard 163.)53 242. Nov 24 [-possibly Dec 5]; Dec 16 [STC, TW spend the morning in Narberth, finally leave for Cresselly,] where they stay [through possibly Dec 5] | again at the Allens'. (They remain in the vicinity till I Dec 16.) (CN I #1270 and n, 1272-85; Meteyard 163.)54 53It is difficult to ascertain whether STC, TW ar- j rived in Cresselly Nov 23 or 24. TW (Meteyard 163) says to j his brother in a letter written Nov 28 from Cresselly (see 1 1802:243), "I have been here since Tuesday (Nov 23)." But j STC's CN I #1270, 1272 so intricately describes the events that took place at the White Hart Inn thes evening of Nov 23-; the morning of Nov 24 that it is difficult to believe they arrived in Cresselly before the 24th. It is possible that TW, recalling this event a few days later, mistook the ac- j tual day of their arrival. I i - I 54por the Allens' reaction to this visit, see Litch- I field 12.4-26,... . . i ! . . . . . . . . .. . . .; - ' - . . . . . . . . - . . . . . - - . . . . . . . . . . . — . - - - - - - - - - - - (18 02) 3 27“ j ! i 1243. [1802, Nov 28] j : ■ i TW writes Josiah Wedgwood from Cresselly: TW, STC ’have been at Cresselly since Tues (Nov 23; but see 1802:241i 'and n) . TW's depressed spirits. STC "in prodigious favor"! at the Allens'. TW's possible travels with STC. STC's de-| sire to spend a fortnight at Gunville. (Meteyard 163-64.) ; 244. [1802, Nov 29 (-possibly Dec 1)] i i [STC, Sally Wedgwood, some of the Allens,] walk to North Down; (stay till [possibly Dec 1]). (Meteyard 166.) 245. Nov 30 TW, Frances Allen write from Cresselly to [Josiah j I Wedgwood]: (TW writes:) TW's interest in property near . Gunville. TW's spirits improved since his Nov 28 letter (see 1802:243). Will stay at Cresselly "about a week long er" (they leave Dec 6), then "immediately" go to Gunville ’ with STC, to examine the property. TW may go to Keswick to! see the Luffs. (Frances Allen writes:) Desire for Sally Wedgwood to! remain longer; everyone but TW went to North Down yesiter- day, return tomorrow. "...Mr. Coleridge was in one of his ! pleasantest moods." Today they will show STC the rocks be-; low Pembroke and dine with E. Leach. (CN I #1285; Meteyard’ 164-66.) i 246. [1802, probably Dec 1] [STC, Sally Wedgwood and the Allens return to Cress- ; elly from North Down probably on Dec 1.] (Meteyard 166.) 247. [1802,] Dec [2] j JW writes from London to DW: STC left town unexpec tedly; JW did not see as much of him as he would have likedi (see 1802:227). He looks "poorly"— does not seem "to have " \ the life and spirits he used to have." Yet he "was very j entertaining." (JWL #34.) j 248. Dec 4 STC receives letters from SC, Lady Rush, Colonel ! Moore, and Clarkson. STC writes to SC from Cresselly: Much moved by her letter; her health; the nurse. TW goes to Treharn tomorrow | (see 1802:250)55; they leave Fri or Sat for Gunville (see 55tw had rented, a hunting cottage at Treharn,. near ; ~ ' ..........” ...~ ' ..'..' ..........." ...(1802) 328 j Il802:254), from there, after a short stay, to Keswick (see 1802:260). STC will be home by New Year's Day, then may leave again for two-three months. Sally Wedgwood and the. Allens. (CL II #47.1.) j ‘ 249. [1802,] Dec 5 STC writes to SC [from Cresselly] : TW does not go to-! day to Treharn; he and STC go tomorrow. Possible baby j names; on the possibility of SH as a lying-in nurse for SC. I (CN I #1290; CL II #472.) | 250. Dec 6 [-possibly Dec 16] ; ! On Dec 6, STC, TW go to the shooting cottage TW has | rented near Cresselly, at Treharn. [The CN entries through j #1303 seem to suggest that STC remains in this vicinity, j hunting game, until probably Dec 16.] (CN I #1288-1303; CL II #471, 472, 477.) | 251. Dec 7 STC writes to John Prior Estlin [from Treharn] (the letter is headed "Crescelley" [sic] but presumably STC ! means Treharn): STC hopes to see Estlin on passing through ! Bristol enroute home; his MP essays; Deism, Unitarianism and Quakerism. (CL II #473.) | 252. Dec 13 STC writes SC from [Treharn]: Health stationary, ex- ! cept for a sore foot. Not going to Gunville after all, but ! to Keswick, leaving Wed or Thurs morning (Dec 15 or 16) . (See 1802:254.) TW will stay with the Clarksons; SH as nurse; her relationship with SC; the anticipated baby boy j should be named Cresselly. (CL II #474.) j STC receives a letter from his brother James: James' i health. (CL II #475.) . j 253. Dec 14 STC writes his brother James from [Treharn]: STC's tour with TW; James' health; death of Berkeley; STC's own health improvement; the expected birth of his child. (CL II #475.) 254. Dec 16 (-Dec 24) j i i STC. writes SC from [Treharn]: Detailed account of i Cresselly (18 02 )“ 329“ itheir route home from Cresselly; leaving today; arrive Am- jbleside Thurs Dec 23; TW after all to stay at Greta Hall; a maid for SC while he is there. (CL II #476.) j STC,\,TWV leave Cresselly for Keswick [probably Dec 16] ; Arrive home Dec 24. See 1802:260.) [They may spend this night at Llandovery.] (CL II #477.) ! ' ! 255. Dec 17 ; i ! [STC, TW perhaps leave Llandovery,] proceed to Trecas-j tie. STC writes TP from Trecastle: STC's late correspon- j dence with TP, especially his long letter sent to TP in j 'Paris (unpreserved). STC's visit with TW at Cresselly; TW's ihealth. TW will return to South Wales "about the middle or perhaps end of January." STC's health; his improved rela tionship with SC; expected arrival at Keswick Dec 24 or 25. j (CL II #477. See 1802:166. See 1802:265 for STC's re-. I ply.)56 ! 256. [1802,] Dec 19 i STC, [TW] visit the Vale of Teme, beyond Trecastle; j STC remarks on the pear trees. (CN I #1302 and n; CL II j #476, 477.) | 257. [1802,] Dec 20 j STC, TW are on their way to Keswick from Cresselly. There is. a CN entry on this day remarking "two laughing | chimney Sweeps on a white horse," also a mention of "Lecky" j (see CN I #1305n). [Are these experiences along the way?] ! (CN I #1305.) | 258. [1802,] Dec 23 STC, [TW] pass through Garstang and Lancaster on the j way home. [They possibly spend the night at Lancaster.] ! (CN I #1308.) 259. Dec 23 I 1 I Sara Coleridge, STC's daughter, is born Dec 23. (CN I #1310 and-n; DWJ I, 186; EY #180; EC I, 2.)57 j 5 ( > T h e r e j.s an intervening and apparently unpreserved ' letter from TP. j i • * I 57ihe documents of that time make clear that Sara's statement (EC I, 2) that she was born on Dec 22 is in errorj :For Sara's impressions of Greta Hall during her childhood I (1802) 330” 260.. Dec 24 j i i SH., at Grasmere, is in bed with a toothache. (DWJ I, ! 186.)58 | STC, TW arrive at the W's in Grasmere. STC looks j well. DW says, "We had to tell him of the birth of his lit- Itle girl, born yesterday morning at 6 o' clock."59 W goes j with STC and TW to Wytheburn in the chaise. Arriving home, I jSTC finds his baby daughter. (DWJ I, 186; CN I #1310 and n; CL II #478; EY #180.) ■ ■ I . 261. [1802, between Dec 24 and 31] | STC enters a CN observation on the evil of plagiarism.; :(CN I #1316. See 1802:181 and n.) 262. Dec 25 ; I STC writes to RS from Keswick: Arrival at Keswick Frii afternoon (Dec 24); the birth of little Sara; Derwent and j Hartley well. STC's reasons for not visiting RS when at iCote House. RS's health; STC's. STC is "fully determined to try Teheriffe or Gran Canaria"— will RS go along? j DW writes from Grasmere to JW in London: STC's ar- j rival Fri morning at Grasmere with TW, STC improved. Birth of baby Sara (Dec 23). (EY #180.) TW writes to Josiah from Greta Hall: TW's plan to settle in Wales; if it fails, he will give up trying to find ways to improve his health. (See 1802:263. See Litchfieldj 128 for Josiah's reply, also 1802:267.) 263. [1802, shortly after Dec 25] TW writes again to Josiah from Greta Hall: TW would terminate his efforts toward health now, if it were not for j the necessity of considering others. (Litchfield 128-29.) i 264. Dec 27 i STC writes to Mary Robinson^O from Keswick: "Poetic years there, see her- Memoir and Letters (EC) I, 12-17. Sara was baptized shortly after her birth (see 1803:27) . j C O i 3°SH has arrived from Keswick sometime before this. i i 5^STC was also away from home at thel birth of Hartley j (see 1796:135), although he was apparently at home for the | births of Berkeley and Derwent (see 1798:115; 1800:194). I 88The daughter of the poet Mary "Perdita" Robinson, J j ...... “ (1802) 331 . | composition has become laborious and painful to me"; his relationship with her mother, and his wishes for the daugh ter; his "A Stranger Minstrel," which was published in, Mrs. Robinson's posthumous Memoirs, 4 vols, 1801, IV, 141; his i disinclination to have his work included in a projected j publication of Miss Robinson's. (CL II #479.) j 265. Dec 29 STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's safe arrival from j the tour with TW; the birth of Sara. STC, TW to leave Kes- ; wick in the morning for Ullswater, then either returning to j Keswick or going to Newcastle-upon-Tyne (see 1802:266). Will be in the south of England before the last week of :January, at Treharn or Gunville, for six weeks or two mbnths, then to the Canary Islands, to see about future residence there. Then STC will either return and take his family there, or tour Sicily and southern Italy for the possibility of a residence there. Apology for the tone of his last letter to TP; TP's health. Receipt of TP's recent letter (unpreserved). The Catholic religion of the Canary Islanders. (CL II #480. See 1802:255.) 266. Dec 30 (-1803, Jan 1); Jan 2 DW goes to Keswick on Dec 30; W goes with her to the foot of the hill nearest Keswick. (DWJ I, 187.) (She stays till Jan 2, 1803. See 1803:4.) STC walks with TW to Patterdale, at the head of Ulls- iwater, to Luff's.®-*- (STC stays till Jan 1.) (CN I #1319; CL II #482.) 267. Dec 31 Josiah Wedgwood writes to TW: Received today his Dec 25 letter (see 1802:262). Josiah's consolation of TW. ; (Litchfield 129.) !former actress and mistress of George IV, when still Prince; of Wales. ®-*-TW is attempting to secure Luff as a traveling com panion . 1803 ' 1. [1803, Jan 1] i TW writes Josiah from Luff's. at Patterdale: Descrip- ! tion of the lake, Helvellyn, the Luffs. (Litchfield 130.) 2. [1803, between Jan 1 and c Jan 14, possibly shortly j afterj : TW writes Josiah again from the Luffs': Plans for a trip to a warmer climate; "May...induce Luff to go too, as ; a sporting companion, with Coleridge for conversation." (Litchfield 130. See 1803:11.) 3. Jan 1 (-Jan 4) DW remains at Keswick, [evidently helping with the new j baby. ] STC walks from Luff's over Kirkstone to Grasmere. (CL : II #482. He stays till Jan 4. See 1803:6.) i 4. Jan 2 DW returns to Grasmere from STC's.. STC, W, MW, SH walk | to meet her at John Stanley's. STC gets his feet wet, is ; ill afterwards. (DWJ I, 187; CN I #1333 and h; CL I #48i.) i 5. Jan 3 At Grasmere, STC is ill with an attack of dysentery. (CL IX #482.) 6. Jan 4 (-Jan 6) STC, feeling better, leaves Grasmere, returns to Luff's; at Patterdale, (where he remains till Jan 6, when he re turns to Grasmere.) (DWJ I, 187; CL II #482.) 7. [1803,] Jan 5 STC writes to SC from the Luffs’: . Apology for not 332 :... - - -.... ..... .....- . ' .: --------(1803) "333 ! adding lines to letters that went to her from Grasmere— he was ill. Their relationship; his love for the circle at jGrasmere and her reaction to it? his walk on Jan 2 to meet j DW returning from Keswick. STC may go to Gunville in a j week. Goes to Grasmere tomorrow to consult with W regarding "a very important subject" [apparently having- to do with !SH.] * * • TW will certainly not return to Keswick (but see | 11803:16). The children: coffee and late hours? worms. i (CL II #481.) | 8. Jan 6 (-Jan 7)? [c Jan 19] j I STC goes from,Patterdale to Grasmere, (returns to Kes-j wick Jan 7. See 1803:9.) [He apparently leaves TW at Pat- j terdale? TW possibly returns to Keswick c Jan 19 (see 1803: j 18).]^ On his way to Grasmere there is a heavy storm. He I calls at Wilcock's enroute to Grasmere. Has a bad night. (DWJ I, 187? CL II #481, 482.) | 9. Jan 7 j i I STC, SH go to Keswick from Grasmere. W goes with them; to the foot of Wytheburn. STC is ill with an attack of | dysentery on arriving home. (DWJ I, 187? CN I #1334 and n; i CL II #482.) 10. Jan [8] i STC writes RS from Keswick: RS's conduct toward George Burnett? RS's health and diet; baby Sara's thrush? STC's I recent trip to Patterdale and Grasmere. STC's future plans j with TW: Gunville in ten days or so (see 1803:40, 41), j then Paris, via Switzerland, also Rome,' Naples and perhaps Sicily. Request for information regarding Switzerland. i (CL II #482.) j ; j 11. Jan 9 j j STC writes TW [at Patterdale): Necessity for haste in j leaving for the Canary Islands? TW's travel plans? plan forj •^•EKC (164) suggests that STC was going to discuss with j W and MW the possibility that SH might become the wife of | John Wordsworth. i ; I ^STC's Jan 14 letter to TW (see 1803:16) says, "At the end of 5 days we shall have two beds vacant,. for you— and for Mr and Mrs Luff...," as though he were expecting TW to return to Keswick. STC, however, leaves alone for Bristol j on Jan 20, and it seems strange that if TW returned to Kes- i wick at all, he did not wait for STC and go with him to ! j .... -..... ........... (1803) 334 i ! iresidlng in Italy or Sicily.3 STC's and SC's health; STC's I trip from Patterdale to Grasmere on Jan 6, over Kirkstone ;Pass in a storm (see 1803:8). (CL II #483.) j j 12. [1803, probably Jan 10] STC is ill with a very severe pain in his right side, j ; (CL II #484.) j 13. Jan 11 i STC's health is much improved in the morning, but he j is ill again at night. (CL II #481.) W, DW receive a letter from STC— in bad spirits (un- preserved). STC's projected voyage to the Canary Islands. j (DWJ I, 188? CL II #481, 482.) ..... RS writes to William Taylor from Bristol: The Edin burgh Review's recent abuse of Thalaba? RS is "well pleased ; to be abused with Coleridge and Wordsworth," though he hardly knows W. (WTM I, 440.) 14. Jan 12 RS writes to John Rickman: George Burnett's opinion of STC. (NL 300.) STC walks after dinner with SH to Lodore; is ill again I at night. (CL II #484.) 15. [1803, Jan 13] STC awakens with two bloodshot eyes? improves on re- i iceiving a letter from TW: [Why did STC venture to go on ' over Kirkstone Pass in the face of such weather? (See 1803: 8.)J (CL II #484.) 16. Jan 14 i STC writes TW [from Keswick]: Received TW's letter ; yesterday? STC's reaction to nature, death? his experiences since Jan 10— explanation of his trip over Kirkstone in bad I weather Jan 6: "I never once in my whole life turned back ; in fear of the weather." "At the end of 5 days we shall have two beds vacant, for you— and for Mr and Mrs Luff... "4 ; Bristol. I i 3"We hear no more of this visionary project." (Litch- | field 131. But see 1803:27.) i | is unclear who the two visitors were who were occu-| pying the two beds. One was surely SH, who had returned to i ...................- ....- ..-... -......... (1803) 335 | |(CL II #484. See 1803:11.) j 17. [Jan 14-19J ' . ! i ! [SH perhaps leaves Keswick, returns to Gallow Hill dur-i |ing this time.] (See CL II #484.) | | I 18. [1803, between Jan 14 and 25) TW returns from the Lake Country to Bristol (see 1803: ' 14, 24) . [He may return briefly to Keswick from Patterdale ; before Jan 20, though this is doubtful (see 1803:8 and n).] j ' : i 19. Jan 17 ’ j [STC, evidently still having domestic troubles,) notes i the following in Latin, in connection with a reference to I his wife: "Man is fitted for governing within a government,! or under authority." (CN I #1335 and n; CL II #481.) | On this date [he is perhaps also thinking of a projec- i ted poem in which he will describe what he wishes SH would feel about his projected tour with TW.) (CN I #1335 and n.)j 20. [1803, Jan 20; Jan 25) (-Apr 8) ; t STC leaves Keswick [Jan 20) on a tour that takes him to Preston, Etruria, Bristol, Stowey, Gunville, and London. He arrives Bristol Jan 25; (arrives home finally Apr 8; see 1 1803:24, 72). (CN I #1336 and n; CL II #485, 502.) j On Jan 20 he compares the peace of solitude after Kes- ; wick to a peaceful pool at the foot of a waterfall. (CN I #1336 and n.) [He evidently spends this night somewhere between Kes- . wick and Preston.) (CN I #1338,) 21. Jan 21 j STC is at Preston. [He probably spends the night here,; since Preston is a full two-days' gourney from Keswick.) i (CN I #1138.) | He records a CN entry [that possibly indicates he sees ! !"01d Allen" (TW's maternal grandfather) at Preston (CN I #1339), whom he finds distasteful (CL II #470). But the Al-| lens live at Cresselly, so this may be a retrospective entry from STC's time at Cresselly with TW (see 1802:239).) ! Keswick with STC on Jan 7 (see 1803:9). But the second vis-; itor remains a mystery. DW's journal records no overnight j visit to Keswick at this time, nor indeed any visit at all, ; and there is no record of anyone else having been there. ;....- - - - - ........................- .... ........• (1803) 336 ; : i i ; 22. [1803, Jan 21-Jan 25] j [Sometime between Jan 21 and 25] STC is in Etruria. ! i (CL II #485 .) i 23. J an 23 • i RS writes to William Taylor from Bristol: RS is against Taylor's taking a position as newspaper editor: ;"Coleridge and I must drudge for newspapers from necessity, | but it should not be your choice." Expects STC this week on | his way to France and Italy with TW. (WTM I, 445, 447.) 24. [Jan 25] (-Feb 4) | STC arrives in Bristol [Jan 25,] goes to Cote House; ■ finds TW "in very low spirits," so STC does not stay at Cote House, but goes to RS's. (He stays in Bristol till Feb 4, when he leaves for Nether Stowey. See 1803:29.) (CL II #486.)5 25. Jan 29 An editorial paragraph headed "Poetry" appears in MP for Jan 29, favorably discussing W's political sonnet. Moorman says, "One suspects the hand of Coleridge in this editorial." (Moorman I, 571.) 26. Jan 30 RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn from Bristol: STC is at j RS's, on his way abroad for his health. (NL 306.) 27. Feb 1 I STC writes Samuel Purkis from Bristol: Has been to Etruria and Bristol, where he is at present, planning to go i to Blandford, probably Stowey, Exeter, and possibly Land's End, then to France, Italy, Sicily with TW; or else to the Canary Islands. STC's miserable health, forthcoming second | volume of poems; has written "a Tragedy and a Farce and have planned out a long comic Poem."6. The birth and baptism of Sara. Indian hemp drug for TW; TP's health. (CL II #485.) ; %ee Litchfield 139 for Kitty Wedgwood's reaction to STC. %he tragedy was probably The Triumph of Loyalty (see j GCL 77); the farce has not been identified, and neither the j comic poem nor the second volume of poems ever materialized.! .......................... (1803) 337.] < . ’ ' ! 28. [1803, Feb 2] j STC writes TP: Arrival at Bristol Jan 25 (see 1803: 24); staying with RS; goes alone to Stowey on Fri (Feb 4), where he will await communication from TW. (CL II #486.) 29. [1803, Feb 4] (-Feb 18) i STC leaves Bristol for Stowey and TP's [probably on i Feb 4.] (Remains at Stowey till Feb 18, when he goes to i Gunville with TP. See 1803:40.) (CN I #486,498,494; CN I j #1347 and n.) 30. Feb 4 ! RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn: STC has been lately with RS, is going abroad for his health. Talks of a poem on the death of the Cid: "I wish it may be something more than talk."7 (NL 307.) 31. [1803, possibly early Feb] STC records notebook entries [probably reflecting his projected trip to Europe with TW, and possibly made under the direction of TP], with whom STC is staying at Stowey. (CN I #1341,1342 and n, 1343.) 32. [1803, Feb 5] At Stowey, STC is ill with diarrhea. (CN II #488.) 33. [1803,] Feb 68 William Taylor writes to RS: What is STC's opinion of • Taylor's recent article questioning Berkeley's defense of idealism? He hears that TW, STC plan a joint publication of Berkelean metaphysics: how do they get around Taylor's argument? (WTM I, 451-52. See 1803:35 for RS's reply.) I 34. Feb 10 STC writes TW: Awaiting imminent word from TW; letter to JW regarding the drug from Indian hemp for TW; TW's 7 The poem, cbf course, remained in the talking stage. 8The letter is dated 1802, a certain typographical er ror for 1803. (1803) 338 Ihealth; TP's remarks concerning France.^ (CL II #487.) j Later in the evening, STC writes again to TW [has evi dently received another letter from TW in the meantime]: STC's health relative to his accompanying TW to Europe. If! STC does not go with TW, he will raise the money and go to I the south of France, Spain, Italy. Suggestion of John Les-| lie as traveling companion for TW. (CL II #488.) RS writes to Grosverior Charles Bedford: STC was re cently with RS, made him lose much time. (NL 307.) j 35. Feb 14 RS writes William Taylor: The ■metaphysical work re ferred to was only talked about (see 1803:33); STC was onlyj to write the preface for it anyway— a brief history of j metaphysics. STC's own projected work on the subject: to j be "the death blow of Hobbes, Locke and Hume." RS is grieved that Taylor has never, met. STC: "all other men... are mere children to him, and yet all is palsied by a totali want of moral strength. He will leave nothing behind him to justify the opinion of his friends to the world; yet many of his scattered poems are such, that a man of feeling| will see that the author was capable of executing the greatest works." (WTM I, 454-55.) j 36. Feb 15 STC writes to RS from Stowey: Recent letter from TW— ; STC will go alone to Gunville; STC's health incapacitates him from going to Europe with TW, though STC believes TW will change his mind. STC's favored European route if he goes alone. Goes to Gunville on "Fri next"— (Feb 18; see j 1803:40); expects to reach it Sat. The latitude of south ern France. Expects to remain at Gunville "from six [weeks.] to two months." TP's health and travels. STC's illness [of Feb 5; see 1803:32J. Mary Lovell's possibilities as governess. The RS's possibilities of living at Greta Hall. ! (CN II #489.) STC v/rites to Samuel Purkis: Goes to Gunville with TP ! "tomorrow morning" (but see 1803:40). W "at Cote, near Bristol." HD's success. STC's projected book on the his tory of metaphysics.10 TW to Italy in the first part of May. May go without STC; if so, STC will go to Europe alone-.-..-TW's illness. (CL II #490.) ^TP ha(j just recently returned from his trip to Eu rope. lOAnothelr unrealized project. (1803) 339 37. £1803, Feb 16] ; STC receives a letter from RS, relative to his resid- ! ing at Keswick (unpreserved). (CN IX #491.) • * ‘ ! 38. Feb 17 ! J * i STC writes RS from Stowey: Received RS's letter 10:00! p.m. last night; STC's conditions regarding RS's living at ' Keswick— he must not bring Mary Lovell. STC's health rela-! tive to the weather. He goes to Taunton on Fri (Feb 18), ;to Gunville Sat (19th). (See 1803:40, 41.) The possibil- | ity of STC as traveling companion for TW. "I do not think,j I shall be able to do anything in the poetry Line.— " (CL | II #491.) i STC writes to TW: TP will go with STC to Gunville. j The time of TW's planned trip to Europe; STC as his compan-! ion. (CL II #492.) * j Later the same day, STC again writes TW: Arrival of I the package of Bang (Indian hemp) from Purkis (see 1803: 27). Encloses a transcription of his Feb 7 letter from Purkis (unpreserved). STC will bring the Bang with him to i Gunville. "...I will give a fair Trial of opium, Hensbane,| and Nepenthe." (CL II #493.) ' i 39. [1803, probably Feb, before Feb 18] Kitty Wedgwood writes [from Gunville] to TW at Stowey: i Anticipating the arrival of TW, STC; Kitty's unfavorable opinion of STC. (Litchfield 139-40.) 40. Feb 18 (-Feb 19] STC, TP leave Stowey together for Gunville, (where they arrive the next day.) They spend this night at Taun- i ton (CL II #491). (CN I #1347 and n; CL II #493, 494; Litchfield 137.) 41. Feb 19 (-Mar 14) STC, TP leave Taunton, arrive Gunville on Feb 19 (CL II #491). (They stay till Mar 14, when they leave for London;! see 1803:49.) During this stay in Gunville, it is decided j that STC wiil not go to the continent as TW's companion. (Meteyard 216-17; CL II #495.) 42. Feb 26 At Gunville, STC begins to put together the materials | for his proposed life of the elder Josiah Wedgwood. (CN I I | (1803)340 j I #1347 and n.)11 j43. 11803, Mar 1] ! : i ■ i TW arrives Gunville on Mar 1, with ho plans, with "no \ thought..." of STC's accompanying him to Europe. (CL II #495.) ' ! i i 44. [1803, Mar 6J STC writes to HD from Gunville regarding T. R. Under- ! wood as a traveling companion for TW. (CL II #495.) 45. [1803, Mar 9] STC writes SC that he will not accompany TW to Europe,! but will go alone to Bilboa. (CL II #496.) \ After his letter home, Josiah Wedgwood tells him that j TW cannot bear to lose him after all; he is to go with TW to London on Mar 14, then to France. (CL II #495.) j 46. Mar 12 STC receives a letter from RS (unpreserved). j STC writes to RS: His letter of this evening; the Edinburgh Review. TW's arrival at Gunville "the Tues be fore last (Mar 1)— hopeless, heartless, planless." STC goes with TW to London on Mar 14 (see 1803:49), then to ! France, "...mention to no soul alive that I am in London and communicate no part of this letter to Tobin.— " Gout medicine. Wishes RS were at Keswick, without Mary Lovell. ! W's intention of residing one-half mile from Keswick. (CL II #495.) 47. Mar 13 ; l STC writes TP from Gunville: STC's health bad, spir- j its poor; his negotiations with TW regarding Europe; com munication with HD regarding Underwood as TW's traveling companion.Leaves London "tomorrow" (see 1803:49). j "There is nothing to be done at present with Mr. W[edg- j woodj's Life." Do not mention that STC is in London. (CL II #496.) ......... l^This biography is never written. 12TW finally left for France on Mar 25, 1803, taking j with him as a companion not STC but T. R. Underwood. He returned to England on May 16, just at the outbreak of war.; (Litchfield 141.) ! i . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 1 8 0 3 ) 3 4 1 : : ! ! At night, STC records that he is to leave at 4:00 a.m. j jwith TW and Josiah Wedgwood for London. (CN I #1360.) \ 48. Mar 14 | RS writes from Bristol to STC: Dahiel Stuart's recent! article on Napoleon [in MP.] STC's travel plans in light i ! of the possible war: "You must not think of the Western Islands or the Canaries...."- Suggests Hungary. The pro- S bable decline of the Edinburgh Review. - (CS II, 201-04.) ;49. Mar 14 (-Mar 15) STC leaves Gunville Mar 14 with TW and Josiah Wedgwood: for London. [They apparently spend the night somewhere be- ; itween Gunville and London, (arriving there the following evening; see 1803:50).] (CN I #1360; CL II #495.) 50. Mar 15 (-Apr 6) STC, Josiah and TW arrive London on Mar 15. (STC stays with Lamb till Apr 6; see. 1803 :69.) (CN I #1361 and n; CL II #498.) ; In spite of the fact that STC wanted no one to know he was in London (see 1803:46, 47), he sees a number of peo ple while there. While in London he insures his life (CL II #502); sees JW (CL II #497); HD (Paris I, 176; CN II #1362 and n; Cottle:Rec II, 72); John Rickman (Poole II, 107; Rickman 86, 88); Godwin (CL II #504); and possibly James Tobin (CL II #499A). There are parties during this time, some of them at William Sotheby's, where STC meets Sir George Beaumont (FD II, 207) . STC also arranges for the hew edition of his Poems with Longman and Rees (LL #43; Wise, 63). Lamb sees it through the press. 51. Mar 18 STC and [James or John] Tobin call on Godwin. (Godwin (MS diary).) < ; 52. Mar 21 ; STC sees John Rickman13; informs him that TP is back in England and working on the Poor Laws. (Poole II, 107- 08.) 53. [1803, probably c Mar 22] STC writes to SC from London: Will come immediately ; ^Secretary to the Speaker of the House ofCommons. (1803)' 342 jif war breaks out? has seen JW? SC's dreams. (CL n #497.) 54. Mar 22 | • i STC dines [at Godwin's] with Hazlitt, H[olcrof]t and j the Lambs. (Godwin (MS diary).) ! ■ ! 55. Mar 24 | TW leaves for Paris, leaving STC in London with Lamb. ! (CN I #1361.) I j 56. [1803, probably between Mar 24 and 31] I STC sees HD in London. (CN I #1362 and n. For HD's ! reaction, see Paris I, 176.) | 57. Mar 28 i DW writes from Grasmere to Richard Wordsworth: Expec-! ting MW, SH on Fri (Apr 1). (EY #182.) [STC probably sees Godwin on this day, possibly goes to the museum with him.] (Godwin (Paul II, 90, quoting MS ' diary).) 58. [1803, Mar 29] i STC acts to have Mary Lamb taken to an insane asylum, i (CL II #498.) Lamb goes to Rickman's for consolation. (Rickman 88.) i 59. Mar 30 John Rickman writes from London to RS: Lamb came yes- j terday for consolation on his sister's removal to an asy- v lum; spent the night. STC is going "to chum with him some ' time for company's sake." Rickman has seen STC twice [evi-J dently once since Mar 21? see 1803:52]? learned from him ! that TP is back from the Continent. Is somewhat annoyed byj STC's much talking, although he receives many invitations j to go to parties because of it, to entertain the guests. ! (Rickman 88.) | 60. [1803, c Mar-July] ' l STC inscribes in Latin an entry [that may reflect the Istate of his feelings toward SH at this time.] He quotes I from Dante's Inferno: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here!" (CN I #1373 and n.) j ' . . . . . . ■ ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 1 8 0 3 ) 3 4 3 61. [Apr] STC sees much of Godwin during Apr. (Erdman n, Godwin :(MS diary).) I 62. Apr 1 ! ! i ■ i STC takes out a life insurance policy. Also takes a j place in the mail, to leave for Penrith Apr 6 (see 1803: j 69). (CN I #1384 and n.) j ; j 63. [1803, Apr 1] • i The weather is very hot. STC spends a restless night,| unwell. (CL II #498.) i 64. [1803, Apr 1 (-Apr 2)] j [SH, MW possibly arrive Grasmere today.] SH stays till Apr 28 (see 1803:75). (EY #182, 184.) 65. [1803, Apr 2] Another hot day, but the weather changes to rain at night, and STC is ill. (CL II #498.) j 66. [1803, Apr 3] The weather is fine, but cold. (CL II #498.) 67. Apr 4 STC writes to SC from London: Leaves for home Apr 6; j will probably arrive the 8th at Penrith, walk to Penruddock. His health during the last few days— improved today. Dines ! today with Sotheby: Sotheby's request that STC finish j "Christabel" and allow it to be published; Mary Lamb at the i insane asylum. (CL II #498; GCL 68.) j [STC probably dines today with William Sotheby.] j i 68. [1803, Apr 5] ! STC writes Godwin from London: He is to take out a life insurance policy today; will use Godwin as a reference. Mary Lamb's health. (CL II #499.) | STC takes out a life insurance policy today; also makes his will. i 69. [1803, Apr 6] (-Apr 8) j ! I STC leaves London for Penrith [probably Apr 6]; (ar- | [ (1803) 344 i rives Apr 8? see 1803:72). (CN I #1384; CL II #499A.) ; ! ; 7.0. [After Apr 6] j HD writes Cottle: STC has left London for Keswick. ; HD saw him seldom while there. STC's wasted ability. i (Cottle:Rec IX, 72.) j 71. Apr 7 In London a life insurance policy is issued to STC. I (CL II #499n.) 72. Apr 8ff (-Aug 15) STC arrives in Penrith Apr 8, proceeds to Keswick the ; same day; is ill on his arrival with the flu and for some ; months following; takes a grain of opium for treatment at once (CL II #500). The whole family is ill but Hartley. (CN I #1385; CL II #502, 499A.) (STC remains at Keswick- Grasmere till Aug 15; see 1803:124.) 73. [1803, probably Apr 12 or 13] ' Lamb writes STC: The improvement of Mary Lamb since STC's departure. (LL I #139.) 74. [1803,] Apr 15 STC writes to J. G. Ridout from Keswick-^: Has not heard about the issuing of the insurance policy; safe ar- i rival at Keswick on Apr 8; heard from James Tobin; the flu. i (CL II #499.) 75. [1803, Apr 28] SH leaves Grasmere for home. (EY #184.) 76. [Between Apr and June] STC records a notebook entry reflecting his continual ! thoughts about SH. (CN I #1394.) 77. May 1 DW writes from Grasmere to JW: SH left Grasmere on Thursday (Apr 28). STC is ill with a rheumatic fever; his : l^Ridout was one of the managers of the Equitable Life I Assurance Society, with whom STC had taken out a policy, issued. . Apr 7. - .............- ......- ... j -................................................................ • . . .................. ........... (1803) 345 i ' !family have influenza. (EY #184.) ! HD writes TP: HD saw STC less often than usual during ;his stay in London. STC's brilliance and his weak will. Recited "Christabel," unfinished, as HD "had before heard it." (Paris I, 176; GCL 68.) 78. May 8 j STC is with the Clarksons at Eusemere, to say good bye, as they are moving to Bury Saint Edmunds. [There is ino indication whether or not STC has been there before this day.] (CN I #1397 and n.) 79. May 17 STC writes RS from Keswick: Arrival at Keswick Apr 8 (see 1803:74); illness since then; death of old Mrs. Dan vers. Will go to Spain in late autumn, either Valencia or |Madeira.16 "I am weary and ashamed of talking about my in tended works; I am still in hopes that this summer will not pass away without something worthy of me." Recommendation that RS take out life insurance. (CL II #500.) 80. [1803, probably c mid-May] STC writes Mrs. Thomas Clarkson at Eusemere: His life insurance policy; the illness of Mrs. Clarkson. (CL II #501.) 81. [1803, probably May 19 or 20] Lamb writes STC: Mary's return-from the asylum; the printing progress of STC's 1803 Poems1^; Lamb's super vision. (LL I #140; GCL 94.) 82. May 20 STC writes TP from Keswick: STC's illness since his arrival home Apr 8; wishes TP could come to him; the life insurance policy and his comfort from it; his will. "I shall employ the first months of my returning Health in ar ranging my MSS, to be published in case I should be taken off— ."18 Instructions regarding the publication of his letters. (CL II #502. See 1803:83 for TP's reply.) l^STC does not go to Spain. ^Publisher, Longman and Rees; printer, Biggs. 18a work on logic that STC began work on around this time. (See CL II #504 headnote.) . . (1803)- 346 ; STC writes to Francis Freeling^9: The! missing issues jof his subscription to MP. (CL II #503.) 83. May 25 TP writes to STC: Encouragement to STC not to be des pondent, and to make the best use of his talent. TP's in tention to see STC at Keswick before winter. TW's health, projected return to England. TP's work on the Poor Laws. The war. (Poole II, 115-17. See 1803:82. See 1803:179 for STC's reply.) 84. May 27 Lamb writes STC: Receipt of STC's letter "full of foul omens" on [May 21]; discussion of the "Man of Ross"; approving comment on "Christabel"; caution for STC travel ing in war time.20 (LL I #141; GCL 68.) 85. [Possibly 1803, June] Lamb writes STC: A lost list of requested books from STC; John Stoddart's contemplated removal to Malta. (LL I #142.) 86. June 4 STC writes Godwin from Keswick: STC's illness since Apr 8. The outline of his plan for the work on logic which he is beginning (see 1803:82n); Godwin's advice regarding publication. STC's plan to write an essay preface to Haz- litt's abridgement of The Light of Nature Pursued.21 (cl II #504.) 87. [June 6] [Evidently home at Keswick,] STC has a session with Derwent explaining to him the meaning of his senses. (CN I #1400 and n.) 19 (1764-1836), of the London Post Office (CL II #503 nl, p. 945). 20probably a caution against STC's projected but can celled trip with TW. 2lHazlitt's work was published in 1807, but without STC's proposed essay. (1803) 347“ 188. [1803, June 7 or 14] DW writes to Mrs. Thomas Clarkson: Received a letter from STC (unpreserved): He is in tolerable health; expec ted this week at Grasmere. (EY #186.) j 89. [1803, possibly shortly after June 7 or 14, probably | not before June 10, certainly before June 26] (-June 26) i STC goes to Grasmere; (stays till June 26). (EY #186,! 188.)22 ! \ 90. June 9 ! RS writes from Bristol to C. W. Williams Wynn: STC and RS's opinion of Chaucer's meter. (CS II, 212.) | 91. June 10 STC receives a letter from Godwin (unpreserved). j STC writes to Godwin from Keswick: Godwin's letter reached him "this moment"; STC is writing for Daniel Stuarti and MP. Low spirits; therefore he has not and will not pre pare a second volume of poems for- the press. STC's offer to criticize Godwin's Life of Chaucer (Oct 1803); sugges- ! tions on that work. (CL II~#505.) ’ 92. [June 10] Derwent is ill with a fever. (CN I #1401 and n.) 93. June 18 W's first child, John, is born at 6:25 a.m. He is STC's godson. (CN I #1404; EY #194, 195.) 94. June 23 RS writes to William Taylor from Bristol: STC and RS's planned history of literature: "Coleridge and I have often j talked of making a great work upon English literature; but ; Coleridge only talks, and, poor fellow! he will not do ! that long,. I fear...." (WTM I, 461.) 22I rather favor a date not over a week before June 26 j for the beginning of the visit. CN entries and CL II #505 j seem to indicate that STC was home at least through June 10; He was certainly at Grasmere on June 26, when DW wrote to ! Mrs. Thomas Clarkson (EY #188). If he did not go before June 18, probably the birth of W's child was the spur that > finally took him to Grasmere. J (1803) 348 1 I 11803,J June 26 | STC leaves Grasmere for Keswick [probably on June j (EY #188.) 96. June 29 ; t STC writes from Keswick to RS: The disease of STC's j will; health "middling"? expectation of "a miserable Winter! . in this country"; thinks of wintering in Madeira. Has not I seen the Edinburgh Review. The progress of RS's history i of Portugal. i l You may expect certain Explosions in the j Morning Post, Coleridge versus Fox— in about a w e e k ."^3 (CL II #506.) STC sees a glorious sunset over Wythop Fells. (CN I #1405.) 97. [1803, July 9] Mary Lamb writes to DW: Her uneasiness about STC; his melancholy letters; Stoddart's expectation of going to Malta. (LL I #143.) j 98. [1803 July, probably before July 12] 24 STC writes from Keswick to RS in Bristol: Outline of ; their projected history of English literature. (CL II #507. See 1803:114 for RS's reply.) 99. July 13 RS writes from Bristol to William Taylor: Detailed plan of the history of English literature projected to be published by Longman and Rees, the first part to be ready by Christmas 1804. RS hopes STC will take the scholastic writers. (WTM I, 465-67.) 100. [July] 16 (-by July 19) STC, enroute to Grasmere on July 16 for the christen- I ing of W's child, performs an experiment with colored glasses!. (CN I #1412 and n.) (He returns to Keswick pos sibly July 18, at least by July 19. See 1803:107, 108.) ! 95. i 26.] 23"Except for Coleridge's two Letters to Charles James Fox of 4 and 9 Nov. 1802, no further contributions concern- ! ing Fox have been identified." (CL II #506 nl, p. 954.) j See CL II #507 headnote on the dating of this let ter . . . .~ ' ' ( 1 8 1 0 3 ) .3 4 9 . . i 101. £1803 July, before July 17] STC writes to Nathaniel M. Moore^: The purchase of j iMoore's jaunting car for the projected Scotch tour (see j 1803:124). (CL II #508n.) j 102. July 17 i Nathaniel M. Moore writes to STC: Approval of the purchase of the jaunting car. (CL II #508n.) 103. [July 17] W, DW write to Richard W: The anticipated six-week : Scotland tour. (EY #190.) 104. July [17]26 - John Wordsworth is christened at Grasmere. STC and Richard Wordsworth are godfathers; DW is godmother. Old Mr. Simpson stands in for RW, who is not there. (CN I #1412 and n; EY #189 and nl.) . . j 105. [1803,] July 17 DW writes to Mrs. Thomas Clarkson: John Wordsworth's; christening today; STC, Richard Wordsworth godfathers; DW godmother. Luff expected tomorrow to see STC. Expecting Stt or Joanna shortly. (EY #189.) 106. [1803,3 July 18 RS writes C. W. Williams Wynn: RS's plan for the his tory of literature; STC's help. (NL 319.) 107. [1803, July 18] ......[STC-is. probably still at Grasmere, may see Luff 25MQore is unidentified beyond the fact that he was of Devonshire and that STC evidently knew him before the writing of this letter, as Moore says in his reply, "A salei between you and me is very repugnant to my Feelings." 26el #147 gives the date of the christening as July 15. K. Coburn repeats it (.CN I #1412n); also Moorman (I, 578). But Shaver corrects the date to July 17 (EY #189 i hi), based on baptismal records of the time. !".......................................................................-................' — ~7 ....... (1803) 350 i ! i j ’ I there.] He returns to Keswick [possibly this night.] (EY j #189.) ! ! i 108. July 19 STC returns from Grasmere to Keswick [at least by July 19.] The day is "intensely hot.1 1 A series of experi ences on this day call up a rememberance of the rivers Greta and Otter. (CN I #1416.) 109. July 23 STC writes to W from Keswick: Sir George and Lady Beaumont are anxious to sde W2^. the letter from N. Moore regarding the jaunting car (see 1803:102); STC's ride with the Beaumonts; description of Lady Beaumont; the Scotch tour; Hazlitt's portrait of W.28 (CL II #508.) STC goes riding with Sir George and Lady Beaumont, meets Lord Lowther. (CL II #508.) 110. July 29 W writes Thomas de Quincey: The projected Scottish tour. (EY #191.) 111. July 31 RS writes from Bristol to John Rickman: STC's opin ion about the available writings on the Dark Ages. (WL 288.) 112. [1803, July-Aug] .a. STC remarks in his- notebook - [possibly on the un favorable review in the Edinburgh Review1 of RS's Thalaba (see 1803:96)], as though he himself were included in the attack, and "making the point," in K. Coburn's words, "that! ill-natured public attacks touch his sensibilities very little in comparison with the pain of differing on funda mental issues from men of good will." (CN I #1418 and n.) 27The Beaumonts stayed with William Jackson at Greta Hall in the summer of 1803 and soon became STC's friends. Through him they came to know the W's. 28Hazlitt, who was in the Lake Country at this time, executed portraits of W, STC, and Hartley. P. P. Howe notes that the W portrait was destroyed and that the whereabouts of the other two is unknown. (The Life of William Ha'zTitt, . 1947, p. 395.) i (1803) 351 ' b. In a long CN entry, STC contemplates [what seems to be the idea of the death of his wife,] as "the only con dition of the greatest imaginable Happiness to me," because; it would give him SH; but he cannot bring himself to ac- | tively consider it. However, he ends with a mental ques- ; tion addressed to SH— if he were free, "then, then, would you be the remover of my Loneliness, my perpetual Compan ion?" (CN I #1421 and n.) 113. Aug 1 | j STC writes RS from Keswick: Their respective plans for the history of English literature; STC leaves Aug 8 for! the Scotch tour with the W's (see 1803:124). Family well; Hazlitt's portraits. (CL II #509.) 114. Aug 3 RS writes to STC from Bristol: STC's plan for the j history of literature too gigantic. STC could do it; RS cannot. Further discussion of the plan. (CS II, 220-23. ! See 1803:98, 99, 113.) 115. Aug 7 STC writes RS from Keswick: The memory of childhood in old age; association of idea!s. RS's plan for their his- : tory of literature; STC's ill health. Scotch tour put off till Tues (Aug 9; see 1803:124). (At this point STC re- j ceives RS's Aug 3 letter): STC's place in the writing of the history, relative to his health. (CL II #510.) 116. [1803, sometime between Aug 7 and 12, probably Aug 9 (-Aug 11)] ' ‘ j [Sometime between Aug 7 and 12, probably Aug 9,] STC j goes to Grasmere with Hartley, Derwent, and Mary (servant j girl), expecting to leave from there on the Scotch tour. j (STG returns to Keswick [probably Aug 11; see 1803:119.]) (CL II #510, 511.) 117. [Aug 9] (-Aug 14) j The W's and STC are visited by Samuel Rogers, author T^e Pleasures of Memory, whom STC finds very disagree- | able. (CL II #511.) [Rogers apparently stays at Grasmere till Aug 14. See Clayden I, 10.)] j 118. Aug 10 STC, W, DW expect to leave for Scotland, but DW, STC ! become ill, so they postpone the trip. [STC probably ■ ' (1803) 352.| ; I I I jremains at Grasmere this day.] (CL II #511.) j 119. 11803, Aug 11]; Aug 14; Aug 15 ; STC returns to Keswick on Aug 11 in the jaunting car, j with DW, MW, Mary (the servant girl), Hartley, Derwent, Johnny Wordsworth. [W evidently remains at Grasmere.] (MW! returns to Grasmere Aug 14, [DW perhaps goes with her, morej probably stays at Keswick till the morning of Aug 15]yrwKehj she leaves with W, STC, on the Scotch tour; see 1803:122n). | (CL II #513.) ! 120. Aug 12 STC writes Sir George and Lady Beaumont, who have j left Greta Hall in his absence; His illness at Grasmere, return to Keswick; postponement of Scotch tour till pos sibly Aug 15 (see 1803:124). STC's opinion of Rogers; plans regarding Malta with Stoddart, or Madeira; his affec-: tion for the Beaumonts. Thanks from W for the drawings. (CL II #511.) 121. Aug 13 STC writes again to the Beaumonts from Keswick; Transcription of W's "Resolution and Independence" and of STC's "Dejection Ode" (incomplete; see GCL 85)29; STC's j health relative to the Scotland tour; the Applethwaite property given to W by Beaumont; STC has received the pa- : pers. (CL II #512. See 1803:184.) 122. Aug 14 STC writes RS from Keswick: STC's illness, fear of a stroke; Dr. Edmonson's recommendation of the Scotch tour— ; leaving in the morning. The jaunting car; DW, Mary, Hart- j ley, SC, Derwent, baby Sara gone with MW and Johnny seven miles of their way back to Grasmere.30 The RS's proposed 29see CL II #512 headnote for a discussion of the close relationship between these two poems. 30dwj I, 195 says, "William and I parted from Mary on; Sunday afternoon August 14, 1803," then left the next morn ing from Keswick on the tour— as though they were together I at the parting at Grasmere, then went to Keswick together, which would suggest that DW must have returned to Grasmere ; with MW. However— CL II #513 definitely suggests that DW i went only part way with MW to Grasmere, then returned to Keswick on Aug 14. DW may mean in the journal entry that -............... ..... ..-..-.- (1803).353 i < ! - ' 1 joccupancy of. half of Greta Hall. The likelihood-of the Scotch tour improving STC's health; Dr. Beddoes' book. | ;STC's gout; request for medicine; the probability of going | to Malta with Stoddart. (CL II #513.) Back at Grasmere, W, Samuel Rogers walk by the lake. ; (Clayden I, 10.) IMH probably arrives home; then W pro bably goes to Keswick, joining DW who is probably already there.] They spend the night at Keswick. (DWJ X, 195.) 123. [1803, c Aug 15] STC records the price of the horse and Irish jaunting! car for the Scotch tour. (CN I #1424; CL II #508.) 124. Aug 15 (-Aug 29); Sept 10; Sept 15; Sept 25 STC, W, DW leave together from Keswick on Aug 15 for : their tour of Scotland in the jaunting car. (They tour to-; gether till Aug 29,) when STC leaves W and DW, going to Edinburgh, where he arrives Sept 12 (see 1803:140, 155). STC arrives home Sept 15 (see 1803:159); W, DW return Sept 25 (see 1803:171). While STC is gone on this tour, Lamb 'sees through the press the- 1803 edition of STCs Poems (see I Richard Herne Shepherd, The Bibliography of; Coleridge," Lon-; don 1900, 31-34 for a discussion of this ecTition of the Poems.) This edition did not include the contributions of Lloyd and Lamb included in the 1797 edition. (GCL 94.) (DWJ I, 195-409; SC letter, CL II #513 nl, p. 975.) 125. Aug 15 STC, W, DW leave Keswick at 11:20 a.m. They walk past Carrock mountain, Grisedale and Mosedale (pastoral val leys); have two difficult situations with the horse. They sleep at Mr. Younghusband's public house, Hesket Newmarket.; (DWJ I, 195; SC letter, CL II #513 nl, p. 975.) 126. Aug 16 STC, W, DW leave Hesket Newmarket 9:00 a.m. Pass Rose Castle upon the Caldew; watch the shadows on the house. Dine at Carlisle, where the forger Hatfield is condemned; she parted from MW when MW returned to Grasmere Aug 14, DW ' returning to Keswick; and W parted from her after her arri- | val home, going on to Keswick that day himself. It hardly i seems likely that DW would have gone to Grasmere and re- ~ ; turned to Keswick on the same day, and CL II #513 definitely suggests that she remained at Keswick Aug 14. (1803) 354 ; ' ' " * l |STC sees him in t h e jailer's h o u s e . 31 Ride bn to Longtown,j where they spend the night in t h e Graham's Arms Inn. (DWJ j I, 195-96; CN I #1427, 1432; DQ II, .175-83 on Hatfield and ! the Maid of Buttermere.) j ; ! 127. Aug 17 j ; j STC, W, DW leave Longtown after breakfast; take the j road to Glasgow. Notice the heather, the peat, the earth- ! built huts. Cross the River Sark, enter Scotland. See j Springfield, Gretna Green— dirty and miserable. Reach Dum-I fries, with crowds of people on the road. Spend the night ! at Dumfries. (DWJ I, 197-98; CN I #1429 (but see n), 1432,; 1434.) 128. Aug 18 W, DW visit in the morning Samuel Rogers and his sis-i ;ter (see 1803:117), who are staying at the same inn in Dum-: fries.32 W, DW go to the churchyard where Burns is buried,! the house where he lived the last three years of his life, j and where he died. [His widow is apparently still living i in the house); DW says she has gone to the seashore with her children. They are shown into the house by the maid. Later they pass Burns' farmhouse, Ellisland, on their right. Pass through the vale of Nith; cross the Nith, reach Brownhill, where they spend the night. After dinner j W, DW go walking; STC is unwell, sleeps "upon the carriage j cushions." See a tall beech tree with one thick stem splitj into four "thighs," "as STC afterwards called them" says DW. They talk of STC's children and family. (DWJ I, 198- ' 202; CN I #1434.) ! [CN I #1434-36 seem to suggest that on this day STC experiences the beginning symptoms of that falling out with; W, probably aggravated by STC's symptoms of withdrawal from! opium, that finally resulted in their separation at Arro- j char.]33 I 129. Aug 19 STC, W, DW. leave Brownhill [apparently in the morn- ; 3lDe Quincey says that Hatfield refused to see STC (DQ 178). 32por Roger's comment on their visit to him at Dum- j fries, see Clayden I, 10-11. j 33For W's own comment on the situation, see WPW III, I 438: Note to "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803." I ■ ■ ■ .■ .................. ' (1803) 355 | iing.J Pass through Thornhill. At a turnpike house beside, j I the Nith, they go in,.find the man living alone-. STC gives j :him a pamphlet, The1 Crisis of the Sugar Colonies. They seej three boys with fishing rods; STC begins to question them j about their schooling, and they run off. They see a huge j building, with a lever coming out of its side, they suppose for raising water out of the mines. STC calls it "a giant j with one idea." They arrive at Leadhills, a mining village j owned by Lord Hopetoun; they spend the night here at the j house of a Mrs. Otto. W, DW go walking after tea; STC is i weary and does not walk. (DWJ I, 203-02; CN I #1438.) j 130. Aug 19 RS writes from Bristol to John May; His daughter j iMargaret dying of hydrocephalus; RS's plans to go to STC's | after her death. (WL 229.) 131. Aug 20 i STC, W, DW leave Leadhills 9:00 a.m. They come upon a ruined cottage beside decayed trees in a vale which spreads out into a large field, in which a woman is sitting^ motionless. They are much impressed by the dreary solitar-I iness of the place. Walk through the village of Crawford- I john, where they encounter a minister, {probably the Rev. John Aird, minister of the parish there (J. C. Shairp n, DWJ I, 215)J, who gives directions for W to fix the wheel j on their carriage. STC talks with the minister "concerningj the uses and properties of lime and other manures." At length they join the great road from Longtown to Glasgow. They stop for dinner at Douglas Mill, a large inn which is j one of the regular stages between Longtown and Glasgow; leave about 3:00 p.m. See before them Ben Lomond and the ! other hills of Loch Lomond. They see a field covered mostly with ragweed (grounselj ; STC comments "that there | was land enough wasted to rear a healthy child." They see ; the river Clyde and the town of Lanark. W goes to see the j waterfall {on the Clyde (Cora LirinJJ alone; STC and DW walk; on, STC leading the horse, to inquire about an inn. Spend I the night at the New Inn in Lanark. After tea DW goes j alone to meet W and see the falls; STC is unwell and does not go. She comes back without having seen the falls or W.| STC’is sitting by the fire when she enters the inn. Some- j time during this day, STC and W discuss the precise meaning; of the terms "majestic," "sublime," and "beautiful," [evi- ! dently concluding that one object or scene cannot have all j three words applied to it at once (see DWJ I, 223-24)J. (DWJ I, 212-21; CN I.#1439,1443.) j 1 1 8 0 3 ) 3 5 6 132. Aug 21 i ' ■ I ! • " ‘ ... 1 Immediately after breakfast W, DW, STC go to see the j falls [on the Clyde.) They meet two other tourists there, | and STC talks with the man, who calls the falls "majestic."I STC is impressed, and agrees, until the man also calls the I falls "sublime and beautiful," at which point STC ends the j conversation and laughs over it to DW and W (see 1803 :131) . | They see the Boniton Pall, which they find inferior to the j Cora Linn. They have dinner back at the New Inn in Lanark j — boiled sheep's head, which DW, STC eat "heartily." After, dinner they walk toward Hamilton; stop on the way to see the Cartland Crags. Hear an excellent echo. At 4:00 p.m.* ; they reach the place at which they had left the jaunting j car [probably on the road from Lanark) ; discover that its cushions are missing, so W walks back to town after them, while DW, STC wait with the car. They ride through the Vale of the Clyde, see the Fall of Stonebyres, another of the falls on the river. Spend the night at Hamilton. (DWJ; I, 221-29; CN I #1449-53.) STC records that his heart "akes" for "Asra" (SH) . (CN I #1451.) 133. Aug 22 After breakfast in Hamilton the party go to the Duke j of Hamilton's house, to see the picture-gallery, but are not admitted. They go .instead to see Baroncleugh, a lovely! old house with gardens cut out in rocks. They are never admitted to the Hamilton house. Leave Hamilton about 11:00| a.m. See Bothwell Castle, and are impressed with its noble I view, overlooking the Clyde. Spend the night in Glasgow at the Saracen's Head Inn. After supper W, DW walk to the post office, [evidently leaving STC at the inn.) They go to bed early. (DWJ I, 229-36; CN I #1453.) 134. Aug 23 W, DW, STC walk to the Glasgow bleaching-ground, where the women bleach their clothes, and to the wash-housej in the middle of town. They leave Glasgow after dinner, i about 2:00 p.m.; give four school-boys a ride in their car. I See [the house of Lord Ballantyre— Erskine House) , are muchj impressed; also a fine view of the Clyde, with Dunglass Castle and the rock of Dumbarton in the distance. Stay the; night at Dumbarton. STC is in a downstairs room near the door, cannot sleep because of the noise from the street. CN I #1456 [seems to reflect the difficulty of STC's strug-! gle with the effects of opium during this time.) (DWJ I, 236-40; CN I #1454, 1457, 1459; CL II #514.) (1803) 357 1 > i ! j ' 135. Aug 24 j W, DW visit Dumbarton Castle ; in the morning after breakfast. [Evidently STC does not go till later, possibly! because of his bad night's sleep.) He joins them at I I length, and they climb to the top of the rock, where they find magnificent views in three directions. Down off the rock, on the road again, they see two large fragments of the rock which have fallen off. STC thinks one of them larger than Bowder-Stone; W, DW do not . They leave Dumbar- i ton about 11:00 a.m. Walkf.along the banks of the Leven, where they see a pillar erected to the memory of Smollett. W, STC find the Latin inscription very bad. Come to Loch Lomond, are somewhat disappointed, though they do find one I spot that is very impressive. They spend the night at Luss: W, DW walk out after dinner; STC, being unwell, remains at ; the inn. Later he talks with the landlady's daughter, who i tells him she has not spent all her time at Luss, but has ! just come from Glasgow. W, STC share a room with two beds ! in the garret, and are disturbed by a drunk who comes to the inn after they are asleep. (DWJ I, 240-50; CN I #1460-1 61; CL II #514.) RS writes to William Taylor from Bristol: The death of RS's daughter Margaret yesterday. RS's plan to leave Fri morning (Aug 26) for Keswick. (WTM I, 468-69. See 1803:138 for Taylor's reply.) 136. Aug 25 After breakfast at Luss W, DW go down to the side of ' Loch Lomond. STC joins them there, and they engage a row boat and rowers and go out to the island owned by Sir James Colquhoun. They see a beautiful view from the island, in cluding Dumbarton rock with a mist over it, giving it a ghost-like appearance. They arrive back at the inn about i inoon, depart immediately. Travel to Tarbet, more than half way on foot because the road is hilly. Are impressed with ; Cobbler Mountain. Spend the night at Tarbet. In the even-; ing before tea [STC, W,) DW walk toward?'thee he ad of the lake, are given information about Loch Katrine and the Tro-; ssachs. CN I #1463 [is probably again a reference to SH, whom STC is missing at this time.) (DWJ I, 250-58; CN I #1462-68; CL II #514.) 137. Aug 26 The party set off for Loch Katrine between 10:00 and 11:00 a.m., first in a small, unstable boat. Transferring from it into a larger one, W drops the lunch into the wa ter. They rescue most of it and go on. Visit Rob Roy's Caves, walk overland from there toward Loch Katrine. STC, (1803) 358 ~ DW eat lunch together— one of the chickens brought from Tar- bet— and water from Loch Katrine; W goes to examine the 'coast of the lake. When finished, they follow him, see a j pleasing view toward the head of the lake. Decide not to I return to Tarbet, and go to a gentleman1 s. house at Glengyle, on the lake, for lodging. STC, DW stop at a brookside on the way, while W goes up to the house and negotiates for | lodging. He rettirhs to the brook for STC, DW. They are i served tea, after which W, DW go walking. The house is the | MacFarlanes'. (DWJ I, .259-67; CN I #14,69; CL II #514.) | , ' ■ ■' i 138. Aug 27 j The landlady at Glengyle serves them breakfast, at j which they learn about Rob Roy. The hostess gives DW some ; eagle feathers. They see Rob Roy's burial place on Loch j Katrine; walk three miles to the ferryman's house, warm themselves before his fire, where STC burns his shoes and hurts his heel. STC walks along the lake rather than riding in the boat, because of the cold. W, DW are pleased; with the bays and the head of the lake.' At the landing | they see two huts, with STC in one of them; he hails them, "exulting in the glory of Scotland." From the door of his I hut they see Benveriue, its top concealed by clouds. They ! walk, are much impressed with the Trossachs. See Loch Achray. Return by the same road to the hut near the land ing, from which they return to the MacFarlanes' house bv boat, STC walking as before. He arrives first, boils a pan; of coffee which is ready for W, DW when they return. The host sees that they are warmed and fed before he is him- ; self. W, STC sleep in the barn with another traveller, a drawing-master from Edinburgh. STC remarks, in a letter to I SC C#514) that this is the pleasantest evening he has spent | since his tour, "for [W'sj Hypochondriacal Feelings kept ; him silent, & self-] centered...." (DWJ I,. 265-7.8; CN I #1470; CL II #514.) William Taylor writes RS: Regret on the death of RS's daughter. Discussion of the "Bibliotheca Britannica" ; project; greetings to STC'— their past correspondence; Tay- ■ lor's search for STC in London (see 1799:171), when STC hadj left for Westmoreland. Taylor's recent inquiry•after STC j with Mrs. Clarkson. Has STC read Kotzebue's Bustavus Vasa?! CWTM I, 471-72. See 1803:135.) 139. Aug 28 STC, W, DW leave Glengyle by boat in the morning after breakfast. On landing, they take the mountain road toward i Loch Lomond, see the Garrison house on the way. Wait at ! the ferryman's house at Inversneyde till evening, for him ! to return with people from church; are given dinner there, j !.... ...............................;.'..-.~.. (1803) 359 i I • ■ I ;and dry their clothes. At length they are rowed across (Loch Lomond; STC leaves his watch at the ferryman's house j (DWJ I, 369; 1803:141, 155). They walk three miles back to • Tarbet- where W and the drawing-master have supper, DW and j STC tea. They spend the night back at Tarbet. [w proposesj that STC go on to Edinburgh alone.] (DWJ X, 278-87; CN I I #1471; CL II #514.) 140. Aug 29 j i STC, being unwell, and afraid of the wet weather in an open carriage, decides to go to Edinburgh and to send his clothes on ahead. W, DW continue their journey, and STC accompanies them to Arrochar and part way toward Cairn-! down. STC, DW begin the walk together, W following in the j carriage; STC finally leaves DW in a hut to wait for W be cause of the rain, and STC goes on alone. He arrives first i at the New Inn in Arrochar; W, DW arrive and they have din- : ner there but are unable to lodge. They leave Arrochar about 4:00 p.m., STC going with them a little way, then •leaving for Edinburgh. DW worries about STC "being sickly ! and alone, travelling from place to place." W, DW spend the night in Cairndbw, STC.back at East Tarbet.-• • (DWJ I, - ! 287-98; CN I #1471 and n; N. Broughton, ed.,' Sa’ ra' Coleridge and Henry Reed (Ithaca, N.Y., 1937), 100; CL iTTsTTTl ! I 141. Aug 30 In the morning STC leaves East Tarbet and returns to the ferryman's hut at Inversneyde for his watch (CN I, #1475; see 1803:139); tells the lady how to improve the poverty of her hut; she tells him that if they improved the I hut, the landlord would think they were- growing rich and raise their rent (DWJ I, 369; 1803:155). On this day STC [still evidently thinks he is going directly to Edinburgh (CN I #1471), but he changes his mind the next day and de- I cides to go to Fort William first instead (see 1803:144; CL II #514)3. He spends this night at Garbel, in Glen Fal- ! loch, at the head of Loch Lomond (CN I #1475; CL II #514). W, DW spend this night at Inverary (DWJ I, 293-98). 142. Aug 31 STC leaves Garbel, decides to explore Glencoe (CL II #514); spends the night [evidently at Inverooran (CN I #1478, 1482-83).] W, DW spend the night in Dalmally. (DWJ I, 298-306.)! 143. Sept 1 ; STC leaves Inverooran, dines at Tyndrum (CN I #1482; ; (1803) 360 ;DWJ X/ .339; 1803;146); spends the night at the King's House in Glencoe, where he has a very bad time, with drunken noises around him all night (CN I #1483-85). Here he meets a Dr. Hay Drummond, and receives extensive directions from Glencoe to Inverness (CN X #1481 and n; CL IX #515). (CL XI #514.) W, DW spend the night at an inn, on or near Loch Awe. (DWJ I, 306-14.) 144. Sept 2 STC leaves the King's House at 9:00 a.m. (CN I i #1485-87 and n) . Goes through Glencoe to Fort William, [which he approaches in a reaction from opium withdrawal.) (CL II #515;.ES 58^61). From the Ballachulish Ferry he writes to SC:' The lour since Glasgow; STC's health; ex pects to be at Perth in seven or eight days, then Edinburgh his disinclination to opium. (CL II #514.) [Spends the night at Fort William.J W, DW spend the night at Ballachulish. (DWJ I, 315- 25.) 145. Sept 3 STC spends this day at Fort William, having his stockings and shirt washed, and writing to SC: His severe illness on arriving at Fort William; better today, but a bit "stiffish"; the possibility of a stroke. Greetings to the Jacksons and Mrs. Wilson. (CN II #515.) He spends a miserable night at Fort William, "threat ened with another Attack of Gout in my Stomach, and fright ened into diverting by a violent stimulus, which kept me half-awake the whole Night— ." (CN I #1488.) W, DW spend the night at the King's House in Glencoe, where they learn that STC has been there before them, "four days ago" (DWJ I, 336).34 146. [1803,] Sept 4 STC leaves Fort William, walking, for Glen Nevish, then returns and heads for Fort Augustus. He wears out a pair of shoes on this walk (CL II #517) . Writes a wish for peace and blessing for SH. At Highbridge he is refused tea Spends the night at Letterfinlay, an inn on the SE shore of Loch Lochy, about three miles from Spea'n Bridge (CN I #1490 and n). Complains of many fleas. W, DW spend the night at an inn eleven miles from Tyndrum, • [evidently on the River Dochart] . On the way they 34Actually it had been just two days since STC was there, having left just the previous morning(see 1803:144) (1803) 361 ihave dinner at an inn in Tyndrum, where they learn that STCI |dined there [on Sept 1] , on his way to Fort William after j he parted from them, supposedly to go directly to Edinburgh! (see 1803:140). (DWJ I, 336-41.) 1 j 147. [1803,] Sept 5 At Letterfinlay, STC sleeps in till 10:00 a.m. Leaves at 11:00 a.m. for Fort Augustus. Walks along Loch iLochy, Loch Oich. In a hovel at the foot of Loch Oich, !drinks a cup of whisky and water for his gout. Arrives iFort Augustus at 4:00 p.m. "very unwell and could eat only the Broth at Dinner...." Is seized for a spy and put in jail (CL II #516, 517). (CN I #1490.) W, DW [probably spend the night at Kenmore.] (DWJ I, 341-43.) 148. [1803,] Sept 6 STC, [evidently out of jail,] eats breakfast v/ith the1 iGovernor; buys a new paij? of shoes (CL II #517); leaves iFort Augustus 11:00 a.m. Passes on by Loch Ness to the General's Hut, where he has both dinner and supper, spends ; "a miserable screamy night." (CN I #1491-92.) 149. [1803,] Sept 7 STC leaves the General's Hut on Loch Ness after breakfast; walks "back about a mile" to see a falls, which he much admires (CN I #1492-95). [Probably arrives at In verness this night, as he does approach "the end of the loch," though there is no direct note indicating that he does reach Inverness or telling where he stays while there .1 On this day, however, he does go even farther north than Inverness (CL II #521). [There has been some speculation as to whether he goes to Cullen in Banffshire, on the ishores of the Moray Firth, or to Killin, in Perthshire ;(Scottish N & Q (June 1900) 2nd s I, 189), or to Culloderi, ( which is just Beyond Inverness (CN I #1481n). I think it is impossible to arrive at the truth on the basis of pre sent knowledge.] What is clear is that he does go to one of these places, and that he arrives back at Inverness afterwards, because he leaves from there the next day (see 1803:150). W, DW spend the night at a small cottage near Fas- cally, where the Tummel and Garry Eivers meet, and the Pass: I of Killicrankie. . (DWJ I, 349-56.) RS and Edith and Mary Lovell move into Greta Hall on ; .................. -----....-............ C1803) 362 j iSept 7. (NL 324; CS II, 226; EC I, 7-8.)35 | 1150. 11803,J Sept 8 j ■ STC leaves Inverness in a post chaise, with a drunken; ipost boy whom he finds most disagreeable. He spends the jnight at Aviemore. (CN I #1496.) I W, DW [apparently spend the night in Dunkeld.] (DWJ : I, 356-59.) RS writes from Keswick to Charles Danvers: The RS's j |reached Keswick yesterday (Sept 7); RS's pain on seeing little Sara Coleridge. STC still in Scotland, not expected; for three weeks.36 SC's health good. Hartley unique; ;Derwent and Sara fine but ordinary. (NL 324.) RS writes to Lieutenant Thomas Southey: Moved into 'Greta Hall yesterday. Longman has requested postponement |of the history of literature plan. RS's impressions of the| ;Keswick area. (CS II, 226.) j151. [1803, Sept 9]37 STC leaves Aviemore at 10:00 a.m. Spends the night on Chrubain Mhoir, "a wild & desolate Moorland, with moor- : fowl, on the Dalwhynny, a good bed...." (CN I #1496 and n, 1497.) W, DW decide to return to the Trossachs; [apparently spend the night at Crieff.] (DWJ I, 359-62.) 152. [1803, Sept 10]38 STC leaves Chrubain Mhoir at 9:00 a.m.; spends the night in Kenmore. (CN I #1497 and n; 1498.) ..... W, DW spend, the night at Callander. (DWJ I, 363-65.); 3£)RS Writes from Keswick to Mary Barker: "Coleridge 1 and I are the best companions possible in almost all moods ; |of mind— for all kinds. of wisdom and .all.,kinds of nonsense." I ("Some Southey Letters," Atlantic Monthly LXXXIX [1902], I 38. Written after STC left for Malta, but reflecting on their time tpgether before he left.) For de Quincey's des cription of the situation at Greta Hall after the RS's :moved in, see DQ 11,336-37. 36He returned Sept 15 (see 1803:159). 37STC has the date of these entries wrong, as K. Co- i iburn indicates. I have corrected it helre. ! ! I 3f*Again the date is wrong; I have corrected it with j |K. Coburn. ; r .................... : '.... ' '...(1803) 363 ' i i I i . ! 153. Sept [11J i STC leaves Kenmore at 12:30 for Perth. Passes Gleri ICulloch Lake, Methvan (CN I #1498). [Apparently arrives, in’ lPerth 8:30 p.m.] Finds two letters from RS: The illness : and probable death of RS's daughter; RS's arrival at Kes- j wick (CL II #521) . I STC writes to RS Ifrom Perth) : STC will not remain long in Edinburgh. The death of Margaret. STC's tour and , jhealth; taking no opiates "except ether be one" (but see 1803:144, 240). Transcription of "The Pains of Sleep" (PW ; ! 1, 389-91; GCL 95) , [which may be written around this time.)39 (CL II #516.) STC writes to RS [from Perth) : His imprisonment in Fort Augustus (see 1803:147); his new shoes; feels a fit of vomiting coming on; leaves for Edinburgh 4:00 a.m. in the mail coach. (CL II #517.) 154. Sept 11 W, DW spend the night at the ferryman's house at In- : versneyde. (DWJ I, 365-68.) 155. Sept 12 STC leaves Perth [probably 4:00 a.m.), arrives Edin burgh. Writes to SC: Intention to seek for news of the W's and his clothes; expects to leave Edinburgh tomorrow (but see 1803:158); much upset by RS's letters. (CL II #517.) W, DW again spend the night in the ferryman's hut at iInversneyde, where they learn of STC's experience at the hut the morning of [Aug 30 (see 1803:141)]. (DWJ I, 368- 78.) 156. [1803 Sept, on or shortly before Sept 13] STC receives a letter from A. Welles with a remedy for his gout. (CL II #518 headnote.) 1157. [Sept 13] STC writes to A. Welles from Edinburgh: Welles' let ter with a remedy for STC's gout; thanks for the medicine. STC leaves Edinburgh tomorrow (Sept 14); arrives Keswick 39See CL II #516 nl, p. 984; DA 7-6, for a discussion: ! of why "The Pains of Sleep" was perhaps written around this I itime instead of "nine years ago," as STC says in CL II •#521; 1803:168. | ; ........... 1.................. “..— (1803) 364 i i ! . ■ i 'Sept 15 (see 1800:159). (CL II #518.) j STC writes to RS from Edinburgh: Has taken a place j in the coach for tomorrow morning; arrives Carlisle Wed j jmidnight (14th) ; home by noon on the 15th. His reaction to I ^Edinburgh; Sir Walter Scott at Lasswade,' five or six miles j away; Scott's Edinburgh house. STCJs impression of worth- ; while sights in Scotland;..vWeiles* letter and STC's answer; i STC's health. (CL II #519.) I [At night STC possibly composes in his sleep a brief j epitaph, while dreaming he is dying. J (CL II #520; PW II, j 970; GCL 96.) j W, DW stay at a public house near Loch Lubnaig, [pro-j bably in Strathyre]. (DWJ I, 378-82.) j 158. Sept 14; Sept 15 STC leaves Edinburgh, [probably arrives Carlisle at j midnight]; either walks or takes a coach and continues on toward Keswick, where he arrives the following day (see ! 1803:159). (CL II #518, 519.) W, DW spend the night in Falkirk, in a private house. (DWJ I, 382-84.) 159. Sept 15ff; Sept 29-30; Oct 22-23 (-Dec 20) ! STC arrives home at noon on Sept 15, [evidently finds i William Hazlitt there], also RS and Edith (CL II #520). ; With the exception of a short walking tour with RS Sept 29-j 30 (see 1803:174), and an equally short excursion to Gras- j mere Oct 22-23 (see 1803:193), [STC apparently remains at Keswick until Dec 20], when he leaves for Grasmere, London I and Malta. (CN I #1519-20,1607 and n, 1761; CL II #520; 1803:248.) For some days following his arrival home, STC is ill. (CL II #521.) | W, DW spend the night in Edinburgh. (DWJ I, 384-85.) : 160. [1803, Sept 15-29] (Sometime between Sept 15 and 29] STC plans a de tailed itinerary of his walking tour with RS which begins 1 Sept 29. (CN I #1518-19.) 161. [1803,] Sept 16 STC writes TW from Keswick: "Southey, his Wife & Mrs. Lovell are with us." STC's reaction to William Haz- litt: "addicted to women, as objects of sexual Indul- j gence."49 Unfit to be companion for TW. STC's health (he ! ' | ^®See ELG II, 178-79, 196-97; Heriry Crabb' Robinson' on I : .............. - -..- ................ (1803) '365'] t . * Isays, ”1. will not trouble you with the gloomy Tale of my j |Health," and promptly goes on to tell all about it). Clos-j ;es with a short epitaph he says he "composed in my sleep, I !while dreaming that I was dying" (PW I, 970; GCL 96; see 1803:157). (CL II #520.) W, DW spend the night at Roslin. (DWJ I, 385-86.) |162. Sept 17 W, DW [apparently spend the night at Peebles.] (DWJ ; I, 386-88.) i 163. Sept 18 W, DW spend the night at Clovenford. (DWJ I, 388- 93.) 1164. Sept 19 W, DW spend the night at Melrose with Walter Scott. (DWJ I, 394-95.) 165. Sept 20 W, DW spend the night in a private house in Jedburgh, the inn being full. (DWJ I, 395-401.) 166. Sept 21 W, DW again spend the night in Jedburgh, eat supper with Walter Scott. (DWJ I, 402-03.) 167. [1803, c Sept 22] Thomas Clarkson visits the STC's at Keswick. (CL II #521.) 168. Sept 22 ; STC writes Sir George and Lady Beaumont from Keswick:: IHis arrival home a week ago (see 1803:159); his illness Isince that time. The death of RS's daughter. Encloses j"The P&ins of Sleep," composed "nine years ago" during a previous illness of this kind (but see 1803:153ri). Expec ting the gout medicine from Welles tomorrow (see 1803:157). ' Bodks and Their Writers, ed. Edith J. Morley (London, 1938)/ j3 vols, I, 169-70; and EKC 176 for discussions of Hazlitt's; ;involvemient with a farmer's daughter during this 1803 visit : !to the Lakes. W and STC were instrumental in helping him escape the vengeance of the local residents. (1803) 366 ;STC's. Scotch tour; the W's expected home on Sat (24th; but see 1803:171). Mrs. Clarkson visiting. Transcription of 'his "Hymn Written on Mfc. Blanc" (PW I, 376; GCL 88), four stanzas of the "Tranquillity Ode" (PW I, .360; GCL 83), and !"Answer to a Child's Question" (PW I, 386; GCL 86). (CL II #521.) W, DW spend the night at Hawick, with Walter Scott, who travels there with them from Jedburgh. (DWJ I, 403- I 06.) RS writes from Keswick to John May: RS's impressions of the Keswick area; his plans to remain there if he sur- Ivives the winter; the company provided by STC. (WL 231- 32.) ;169. Sept 23 W, DW part from Walter Scott at Hawick; travel on to Langholm, where they spend the night. (DWJ I, 406-08.) 170. Sept 24 W, DW spend the night at a village six miles south of Carlisle, possibly Rose Castle. (DWJ I, 408.) 171. Sept 25 W, DW arrive home at Grasmere, where MW is being visited by her sister Joanna Hutchinson. (DWJ I, 408-09.) 172. [1803, between Sept 25 and Oct 14, probably between ;Oct 9 and 14J STC remarks that he is glad that W "has bidden fare well to all small Poems— and is devoting himself to his great work"— The Recluse. (CN I #1546 and n; CL II #525; :EY #196; cf. BL I, 23.)4l 173. Sept 28 RS writes from Keswick to John King^2: The RS's mem- |ories of Margaret; the plans of RS, STC for "a three days' ramble" as soon as RS's eyes and STC's gout permit (see As K. Coburn notes, this entry was probably made after Sept 25, the date of the W's return from Scotland, and STC's Oct 14 letter to TP (CL II #525); it was even imore probably made after Oct 9, the date of STC's first meeting with W after their parting in Scotland Aug 29 (see j1803:140). 42t p's brother-in-law in Bristol. (1803) 367 1803:174). RS's progress on Madoc. (WL 234-37.) j .174. Sept 29 (-30) STC, RS leave Keswick at 10:00 a.m. on a walking ;tour that is to take them to Caldbeck Howk and Cockermouth | ; (see CN I #1518). They spend this night [evidently in the vicinity of Caldbeck.] (CN X #1519.) (They return to Kes- jwick the next day; see 1803:175.) 175. Sept 30 It begins to threaten rain, and RS is homesick, so STC and RS do not go to Cockermouth, but instead return I home from Caldbeck Howk. They dine at "a Quaker States man's" near "the bald Overwater"; take tea at 3:15 at Isaac Todd's at Grisedale, and arrive home at 5:00 p.m. (CN I #1520.) 176. [1803, Sept-Oct] STC records the first hint of the BL: His long-con templated metaphysical work will be written as "the history of the mind and fortunes of S. T. Coleridge." (CN I #1515.) 177. Oct 1 STC writes Sir George and Lady Beaumont from Keswick: His illness; the new medicine from Welles; reading at night; the death of Robert Emmet43; STC's youthful Pantiso- cratic scheme; the dreams of youth; revolution; the change in STC's ideas. (CL II #522.) (He completes the letter Oct 2; see 1802:178.) 178. Oct 2 STC continues his letter to the Beaumonts until 1:00 a.m. Oct 2, then [apparently goes to bed and takes it up a- igain at noon]: The beauty of nature around Keswick; the ;happiness of RS, employed recomposing Madoc, working on his history of Portugal. No communication from Hazlitt, who is at Manchester with "both Portraits"^; children well; 43(1778-1803), Irish patriot— executed Sept 20, 1803 for leading an uprising in which Lord Kilwarden was mur dered. (CL II #522 n2, p. 999.) 44naziitt returned to Keswick in Oct. Notebook en tries show that he was there by Oct 24 and that STC again |sat for his portrait on Oct 27 (see 1803:197). Apparently (1803) 368 |Sara's. teething. (.CL II #522.) STC receives a letter from his brother Geoirge. The jsame evening he answers its STC's illness; Scotch tour; I STC's intention to spend the latter part of Oct first with !the Beaumonts,'then at Ottery Saint Mary .till spring— but changed because of the RS's coming. STC's remaining inten tion to spend Christmas at Ottery (but see 1803:248).. The war; his MP essays for Stuart; George's letter on faith and reason. (CL II #523.) 179. Oct 3 STC writes to TP from Keswick: His illness; believes he is soon to die. He has "written to no one" (but see 1803:177-78); transcription of an emended version of 11. ■18-32 of "The Pains of Sleep" (PW I, 389-91; GCL 95; 1803: 153). Scotch tour; the RS^s visit; the new gout medicine; the war. (CL II #525. See 1803:83. See 1803:181 for TP's reply.) ; 180. [1803, Oct 5, 12, 19, or 26 (a Wed night)] RS writes from Keswick to Charles Danvers: STC's ex periences with gout medicine; STC's anger over two articles in MP on the war with France. (NL 330-31.) 181. Oct 9 W takes Joanna Hutchinson to Keswick to see the doc tor, goes to STC's. [This is the first time W and STC have seen each other since their parting in Scotland Aug 29 (see 1803:140).) W also sees RS at STC's. (CN I #1546n; CL II #525; EY #192, 193, 194.) TP writes to STC: v He cannot believe that STC is soon to die (see 1803:179); attempts to joke him out of his se riousness-— "May the gout restore you to health and power." TP's alterations in and around his house; his work with the Volunteers. Recent visits from HD and Purkis. TP's col laboration with Rickman; his projected residence in London. TW in London through the winter. STC must come to London also. (Poole II, 117-18.) 182. [1803,] Oct 9 DW writes Mrs. Thomas Clarkson: SH, Tom Hutchinson to leave their Gallow Hill farm. DW has not seen STC since their return from Scotland; the! parting with him at Loch jHazlitt had returned to put some finishing touches on STC's iportrait. (See P. P. Howe, The Life of William HazTi'tt, ■1947, p. 71.) .............— — — ; ■ 1 — (1803) 369 |Lomond (see 1803:140). His walking trip from Arrochar to IBallachulish Aug 31-Sept 2. "He is taking a violent medi- icine in the hope of bringing his disease to a fit of the |Gout." (EY #192.) | ' ■ :183. [1803, c Oct 12-28] I STC walks out into Saint John's Vale, where he.ad- ! mires the autumn yellows. (CN I #1542 and n.) 184. 18[03], Oct 14 W writes Sir George Beaumont: STC has showed him the papers on the Applethwaite estate. They will probably be unable to take advantage of the Applethwaite gift: STC may be leaving the country. STC's letter of thanks for the 'drawings (Aug 12; see 1803:120). STC's recent letters to George Beaumont (Sept 22 and Oct 1; see 1803:168, 177-78). W was at Keswick last Sun (Oct 9; see 1803:181). The 'jaunting car unsuitable to STC on the tour. (EY #193.) ' 185. Oct 14 STC writes to TP: The stay of Edith Southey and Mary Lovell with the STC's: "Mrs. S[outhey] and Mrs. Lovell are a large, a very large Bolus I" No recollection of having told TW that TP does not like John Leslie; STC's favorable opinion of Leslie. -W's good health; his son John; the be ginning of' The Recluse; W's Oct 9 visit to Keswick (see 1803:181); Joanna Hutchinson's illness; "I now see very !little of Wordsworth." STC's poor health, W's indolence; STC's deteriorating relationship with W; request that TP destroy this letter, also the one of Mar 23, 1801 (see 1801;53).45 Descriptions of Hartley, Derwent and Sara.46 The illness of Edith Southey and Mary Lovell, probable pregnancy of Edith. • Description of RS and his improved 45STC is concerned about the presumption of his opin ions on Sir Isaac Newton expressed in the 1801 letter, and |probably about the comments on W in this one. 4(>Griggs says, "These descriptions of Hartley, Der went, and Sara in some measure prognosticate the future of each child. Hartley was to become a poet and one of for tune's ne'er-do-wells, Derwent a successful clergyman and I schoolmaster, and Sara a children's poet and editor, who iwith her husband strove to put her fathers house •in- order. jSee E. L. Griggs, Hartley Coleridge, 1929, and Coleridge jFille, 1940." (CL II #525”nl7'p. 1015.) (1803)370 I • health. (.CL II #525.) * 186. Oct [171 | STC writes' Sir George Beaumont from Keswick: The iwar; Isaac Barrow's theological works^* everyone at home Sill except STC, SC. (CL II #526.) | W writes Sir Walter Scott: Saw STC, RS at Keswick ! "last Sunday" (Oct 9). STC' s health prevented him from seeing Scott at Lasswade when he was in Scotland. (EYY #194.) 1187. Oct 19 ! • j STC is discouraged over his approaching birthday, jcomments that he has "done nothing" during the! past yeax. jPlans to finish several works, including "Christabel." Is lunhappy over his relationship with SH, yet says, in Latin, that "this hopeless love" has brought him "strength and courage," though he wonders what it has been to her. Re- jmarks on an explosion of temper from the three sisters— ; SC, Mary Lovell, Edith Southey. Struggles at night with the effects of opium. (CN I #1577 and h; GCL 68.) 188. [1803, Oct 19-21] STC comments on how miserable he is when he has not heard recently from SH, or if her last letter "had not hap pened to be full of explicit Love and Feeling." (CN I #1601.) 189. Oct 20 STC believes that this is his thirty-first birthday. (CN I #1577.) 190. Oct 21 Home at Keswick, STC describes the effect of the Idrizzling rain on the landscape around him. (CN I #1603.) 191. [1803, Oct 21-22] Thinking back over his previous quarrel with RS over Pantisocracy (c Sept 1795-Nov 1796), STC remarks that the iquarrel would not have occurred if he had been- able- to look at -RS for what -he- was rather than for what he had done 4^Published posthumously under the editorship of Til- lotson in four volumes, 1683-89. (CN II #526n.) f ..... ' .............................(1803> '371'"; ; j |k. Coburn speculates (that be may. be bringing this up -now j in relation to his present feelings toward HD and Cottle j |(see Paris I, 173-75; CL II #540). . If so, he seems unable I |to come to the same conclusion regarding them, concluding j that "they are unfit to be my acquaintances."J (CN I #1605; |and n.) j192. [1803, probably Oct 21 or 22J i : STC thinks back over the history of his conflict with! W, going over the anger and resentment and trying to ana lyze it. (CN I #1606, 1607.) |193. Oct 22 (-Oct 23) STC hears from Tom Hutchinson that he has taken a farm from a Mrs. Hasle at Ullswater, and is to enter it iwith SH the following March. (CN I #1608.) STC goes to Grasmere,, [evidently to see W.J K. Co burn comments: "After the anger, resentment, and conflict of 1606 (see 1803:192), Coleridge needed to go to Grasmere ;to make peace with his own mind." (CN I #1607 and n.) (He returns the next day.) 194. Oct 23 STC returns from Grasmere. (CN I #1607.) RS writes from Keswick to William Taylor: Invitation to visit Keswick next summer: "Coleridge ...is a suffi cient wonder of nature to repay the journey even if we had no lakes and mountains." (WTM I, 275n.) ; 195. Oct 24 STC walks with RS and Hazlitt through Borrowdale and 1 into Watendlath, "and so home to a late dinner." (CN I #1610.) He sits up late describing the setting of the moon iover Swinside. The last line of the entry reads "15 min utes of One o'clock. Oct 25." (CN I #1614.) 196. Oct 26 ! STC has what he recounts as "a most unpleasant Dis pute" with W and Hazlitt this afternoon on the subject of "the Divine Wisdom" (see Moorman I, 583-87 on this discus sion) , At night STC again sits up late— till after 3:00 |a.m.— describing the effect of the moonlight on the land- jscape, and the setting of the moon at 2:15. (CN I #1616.) 197. Oct 27 [Probably on this day.STC appears, to. be having : ........ - .-. .. ....-... T— ..... (1803) 372 ;trouble with Hazlitt,] who has come to Keswick to finish :the portraits of STC and Hartley (CN I #1618). He sits ;today for his portrait; has an argument with RS on the ori- ;gin of evil. Spends a miserable! night; goes to bed after :tea and awakens screaming after two hours, rousing the •whole household. (CN I #1618,1619.>48 !198. [1803, Oct 28] At 5:00 a.m., STC has what appears to be an anticipa tory dream of Hartley1 s Nov 2 christening. Later in the day he walks with RS up the Greta to Brundholme Wood, on Latrigg. At night he again sits up late watching the moon (CN I #1624) . (CN I #1620; CS XI,“.232.) 199. Oct 29 At 3:00 a.m. STC is up watching the moon over Greta Hall— [apparently he has not yet gone to bed]. (CN I #1624.) RS writes to Thomas Southey: Ris impressions of- the Keswick area. His intention to climb Skiddaw. (CS II, 229-32.) 200. [Probably Oct 20J RS, STC climb to the top of Skiddaw. (WL 239.) 201. [Probably Oct 31J RS writes from. Keswick to Charles Danvers: RS' s re cent exercise walking around the lake; his excursion yes terday with STC to the top of Skiddaw; extensive report on Hartley's unusual features. (WL 239-42.) 202. Oct 31ff (-Dec 5) At 7:00 a.m. STC watches the moon glide behind a black cloud. (CN I #1625.) Between 7:00 and 8;00, looking toward Bassenthwi aite from Greta Hall, he observes the sun and moon in the sky together. About 8:00 a.m. he notices the moon set behind the Thornthwaite Fells. (CN I #1627-28.) STG- is sick- from c this time till Dec 5, when he ®K. Coburn says, "His dreams were becoming unendur able, probably less from the effects of opium than from climactic states of emotional tension with marked physical accompaniments. They may have increased in hallucinatory power from heroic efforts to reduce opium-taking." (CN I #1619n.) - ... -..: (1803) 373 ] 'begins to convalesce. (CN II #527; 1803:237.) J ;203. Nov 1 | STC sits up late again, watching the moon. (CN I | #1635.) I 204. [Nov 2] \ I At 2:20 a.m. STC is up watching the moon, "now waned j to a perfect Ostrich's Egg," hanging "over our House almostj ....." He watches the moon as it is covered with a cloud. i (CN I #1635.) | Hartley and Derwent are baptizeid (EY #196 n2, p. 418). W, DW are godparents of Derwent and are supposed j to be at Keswick for the christening, but are both ill and ; do not go. (Sara had been baptized earlier; see 1803:27; also Derwent, in a private ceremony; see 1800:219. This pfablic baptism is for the benefit of the community..] ^9 205. Nov 3 . . . . j Because of a recorded reference to something SC tells j him on Nov 3, [STC is evidently at home.'] (CN I #1636.) At night STC and RS [evidently have something of a dispute j over the development of the typical reaction to incest]. (CN I #1637.) 206. Nov 4 [STC, RS evidently continue their dispute over in cest.] (CN I #1637.) 20.7. Nov 5 -STC, SC and the visiting sister-in-law spend the j ^There is some uncertainty about the date of the christening. Shaver definitely states that "the entry-.in j the register of Crosthwaite Church is dated 2 Nov (i.§. j Wed)." But DW says on Sun Nov 13, "The Christening of C's i children took place last Tuesday" (see 1803:215), which would have been Nov 8. If Shaver is correct and the chris-! tening occurred on a Wed, DW might conceivably have erred by a day, making the christening Wed Nov 9, but would- she have erred by. over a week, making the christening not "last ! Wed" but "a Week ago last Wed"? I am questioning Shaver' s reading of that church register, or even possibly the reg ister itself. Shaver is certainly incorrect in his state- i ment that the baptism of Sara had been postponed till now: j r.............. - ....... - ....... ..... ....(1803) 374 i i ;evening watching the bonfires lighted in celebration of Guyi |Fawkes night. (CN I #1639.) j i 208. {1803,J Nov 6 ; I STC is "very unwell” all day today. At tea time Der went comes in after all the cake has been eaten and is very; I upset about it. STC takes it as an opportunity for notic ing how the passions can overcome the reason. (CN I #1643- 44.) j i 209. [1803,] Nov 7 STC's illness is improved? he walks with RS to !Braithwaite. "Indisposed in my Bowels" on the way, he ob serves that the feeling is relieved with thoughts that [are; apparently of SH.] "The rest of the walk I was deeply im- ; pressed by the Faith, that my Illness would not materially : diminish my Happiness if I were Housemate with Love." (CN I #1644 and n.)*0 210. [1803, Nov 7-9] STC, being very strict with himself ("with a fervent ; prayer that I may build up in my Being enough of manly : Strength and Perseverance to do one thing at a time...") makes a list of projected works that he wishes to accom plish in the future. Still included on the list is "Chris- tabel"? also, interestingly enough, a "philosophical Ro mance to explain the whole growth of Language...." (CN I #1646.) 211. [1803,] Nov 9 At 6:45 p.m. STC observes the almost-dark landscape and sky, the "Mountains scarcely perceivable except by eyes ;long used to them, and supported by the images of Memory i f lowing in on the impulses of immediate Impression...." (CN I #1648.) 212. Nov 10 RS writes to Grosvenor Charles Bedford from Keswick: Longman's request to postpone the literary history project. Preparation of Madoc for publication: the possibility of a she had been baptized by Feb 1, just over a month after her birth. i S^The date on this entry is wrong, as noted by K. Co burn . I have corrected it here. .............. ..... ....... (1803) 375 !subscription. (CS IX, 233-34.) i i j . . y 1213. [1803,J Nov 10 I i i STC awakens at 2:30 a.m., screaming, from a bad dream; :in which two sons of a nobleman are being swindled out of their property. On being awakened, he again notices and j describes the sky, as he does later, at 7:00 p.m., noticing! !an egg-shaped cloud and wishing for a change in the wea ther. (CN I #1649-50.) i _ ; 214. [1803,1 Nov 11 STC is ill, "frenzied with rheumatic tortures" and also with "a stifling asthmatic flatulence." He Is very miserable. [Possibly on this day] STC writes to W, DW, describing the state of his illness. [Probably on this same night] (lliOO) he again watches the sky, finds it "al-: most perfectly black," except over Borrowdale, where he sees "a dingy Paleness— calm as Death"— -[perhaps reflecting; the state of his own feelings at this time?] (CN I #1651, ! 1653? EY #196.) 215. [1803,] Nov 13 DW writes Mrs. Thomas Clarkson: Tom Hutchinson to take Park House, about two miles north of Eusemere. SH will continue to live with him. STC's children baptized "last Tues."5^ Recent STC letter about his illness; may walk to Grasmere before Wed (Nov 16); has intended coming for some time. The illness of STC's children; SC's "meelt" fretfulness. (EY #196.) STC, unable to sleep at 2:00 a.m., is looking again at the sky, this-time also describing sounds and silences of the surrounding territory. He remarks that the barome- ; ter must have risen, because he is feeling better. (CN I #1660.) Later in the same day, still in bed, he is visited! by RS, and Godwin is mentioned in their conversation (CN X ! #1658). In connection with his illness, he is apparently also having trouble with his appetite (CN I #1662). 216. [1803, Nov 13-16] [Sometime between Nov 13 and 16 STC may walk to Gras mere and the W's.] (EY #196.) 217. Nov [15] At almost-6:00 a.m., STC makes a solemn vow "to God 51Actually Wed. Nov 2? (EY #196 n2, p. 418. But see (1803) 376] ;and my Conscience that,. 1 will not taste either Wine or I Spirit, for the remainder of this Month" (CN I #1665.) | 'Later he observes snow in the hollow under Grisedale Pike i and on the mountains in Boxrowdale (CN -I #1667). [Probably on this day] he goes to visit Fletcher, and on returning has a vision of two pairs of leaves' that look to him like j kites (CN I #1668).52 | ■ i 218. [1803, Nov 14-19] j STC-associates his submerged longing for SH with his illness. (CN I #1670.) j 219. [1803, Nov 15-21] | STC records the fact that he misses SH. (CN I #1669.) 220. Nov 19 RS writes John King from Keswick: STC in bed with | lumbago:.RS reports on his sufferings. STC's arranging ma-j terials for a metaphysical work on "Consolations and Com forts." (WL 244047.) STC notices that the snow on Skiddaw is "almost half j way down," and describes the lovely scene. (CN I #1672.) i Thomas Clarkson visits Keswick, [probably spends the ' • night]. (CL II #527n; CS 1, 245.) RS writes to Charles Danvers from Keswick: Thelwall ; in the neighborhood; expect to see him soon. (NL 336. See 1803:232.) 221. [Probably Nov 19] [Probably on Nov 19J STC, RS argue as to whether Peter Bay ley should be answered or not. (On Bay ley, see CN; I #558n, 1051n-, 1673n.) (CN I #1673; EY #194.)$3 ! 1803:204n.) 52The date on #1665 is incorrect. Tues was Nov 15, | as STC himself made the correction in #1667. ..53ey #194 indicates that at this time RS had Bayley's 1803 Poems to review, and it is probable that he was dis cussing the review with STC, who was himself evidently con-! teniplating a critical piece on Bayley (see 1803:234) . j (1803)377 ! 222. ! [1803.>J Nov 20 j i • • • * i» ; STC is sick in bed on this day, with "fever, rheuma- j | tic pain, & loads of stomach-sickness.1 ' At midnight he ; gets up, "calm, like one lownded [sheltered]," and looks at! the sky with its "dingy" stars. (CN 21 #1674.) \223. Nov 20 Thomas Clarkson leaves Keswick for Grasmere, after delivering to STC a letter from John Thelwall: the possi bility that Thelwall may come soon to Keswick for a short ivisit. (CL II #527 and n; EY #197; 1803:220.) !224. [1803,] Nov 21 DW writes Mrs. Thomas Clarkson: STC ill with rheu matism. (EY #197.) ,225. [1803, Nov 21] At 4:00 a.m. STC observes that "there are 128 Blank Pages remaining in this Pocket-book." He proposes to fill, those pages "with Notes &c on the Picturesque, & the Pleas ures of natural Scenery...." At 9:00 a.m. he observes that there is "cold Rain in i the valley...Snow upon the Mountains— ." (CN I #1674.) 226. Nov 22 STC writes Mrs. John Thelwall: Received Thelwall's letter from Clarkson "the day before yesterday"; anticipa- i tion of his visit— will walk to Kendal to meet' him if his health permits. Family well. (CN II #527.) 227. [1803, probably Nov 23] After taking a considerable quantity of opium, though he says he is "very very far short of intoxication," STC :for the first time in his life feels himself to be near sighted, then has an hallucination of a pheasant's tail that resolves into round wrinkly shapes in concentric cir cles, "like flat baked or dried Apples...." (CN I #1681.) 228. [1803, Nov 24] W visits STC, who is ill. (CL II #528.) 229. Nov 24 [STC and family apparently move to the other half of j ■ ................... ' (1803) 378.... ! ! • ' ! |Greta Hall, so that RS and family can have the original half J (CN I #1682 .) ! ! |230. Nov 25 ; At 2:45 a.m. STC is up watching the sky, which is I clear now, "after a night of storm and Rain." At night the! mountains are snow-covered, the moon is shaped like an os- : itrich egg. (CN I #1683.) , 231. Nov [ 25J W remains at Keswick. (There is no record of his re-‘ ;turn to Grasmere.) STC writes John Thelwall: Too ill to meet Thelwall !at Kendal and go with him to Keswick, but will meet him at Grasmere; expects to leave for Malta or Madeira in "a week or ten days"54; STC's health; request for the purchase of opium and laudanum.55 The RS's at Keswick; W's visit of iyesterday— still here today. (CL II #528.) 232. [Nov 28 or 29 (-by Dec 2)] John Thelwall arrives at Keswick [Nov 28 or 29.] (He| leaves [at least by Dec 2,] when RS writes John Rickman: "We have had Thelwall here.") (See NL 337; 1803:235.) ! (CL II #528; CN I #1684 and n, .1685 and n, 1686 and n.) 233. [1803, probably Nov 29] "In much pain leaning on my Staff," STC observes the !clouds above the Borrowdale mountains and listens to the church bell from Crosthwaite Church (CN I #1689). With Thelwall, [STC evidently walks down to Derwent Water, watches] the waves on the shore "lift & belly up without breaking" a "Carpet of weeds or chopped reeds...." (CN I I#1690). On the same day he observes Raven Crag rising from behind a green hill (CN I #1693). |234. Dec 1 DW writes to STC: "As to Mr. Bayley, we heartily wish you had the job off your hands...." (EY #194; see 1803:221n.)......... 54He does not in fact leave Grasmere till Jan 14, 1804. (See 1804:14.) i 55He intends to take it with him to Malta. (But see ;1802:235, 1803:153.) (1803) 379 [1803,J Dec 2 | i i RS writes to John Rickman: "We have had Thelwall on his way to Edinburgh." (NL 337.) ; 236. [Dec 5] STC dreams of Adam, killed in his old age by Cain's ■ : descendants who are ignorant of the origin of the world. ! CCN X #1698.) 237. Dec 5 STC writes from Keswick to Matthew Coates in Bristol: STC's convalescence from a long seige of illness; expecting "to set sail for Madeira in the first. Vessel that clears : out from Liverpool for that Place"; expecting a letter to morrow from Dr. Crompton with information. Requests a let ter of introduction from Matthew or Mrs. Coates to her rel- i ative. Dr. Joseph Adams, who lives on the island of Ma- ; deira ; STC's living requirements; descriptions of his ; children; Coates' influence on STC's religious faith. (CL ;II #529.) 238. [1803, Dec 6J At 3:30 p.m., STC watches the glorious sunset "behind Newlands across the foot of the Lake." (CN I #1701.) 239. [1803, between Dec 6-13) STC describes in some detail the experience of fall- i ing asleep, the visions and dreams associated with it. (CN I #1717 and n. See International Journal- of:- Psychoan'alysis XIX (1938) 331-43; Bertram D. Lewin, The P sychoanaiys is' of Elation (New York 1950) 106-07) for discussions of the :phenomena of falling asleep.) ;240. Dec 9 ! RS writes from Keswick to Charles Danvers: STC's ad vice on RS's problem with his brother Edward. STC to leave in a few days for ••Madeira. (NL 341.) ^(1756-1818)— obtained his M.D. degree at Aberdeen and settled in Madeira as a physician. In 1801 he pub lished A Guide to the' Island of: Madeira. In 1805, after his return.to England, he was elected physician to the iSmall-pox Hospital. It was Dr. Adams "who in 1816 recom- | mended Coleridge to the care of Mr. James Gillman." (LI, I 442n.)...... .............................................. | 235. ! here f (1803) 380 ; i ; |241. 11803, Dec 9J j j * ' | W, DW receive a letter from STC (unpreseryed). \ W, DW write from Grasmere to STC at Keswick. (DW Iwrites:) MW, DW, Johnny all have colds. The problem of 'sending money in parcels. W's involvement in STC's plan ;to borrow on his Wedgwood annuity to finance his way to Ma-j ideira. Peter Bayley (see 1801:234); the possibility of a visit from Derwent.$7 (W writes:) Plagiarisms from LB. (EY #198.) 242. Dec 11 STC, at 11:30 p.m., decides to devote the last nine pages of the notebook he is currently using to the collec tion of instances of extremes meeting. (CN I #1725.) RS writes to William Taylor from Keswick: RS's pro gress on Madoc; ' his desire to publish it by subscription. Can Taylor help? Invitation for Taylor to visit Keswick I in the summer. STC desires to meet him; he would see W too, maybe Henry Southey. "I know not when any of [STC's] works will appear, and tremble lest an untimely death s ishould leave me the task of putting together the fragments ; of his materials; which...would be a more serious loss to the world of literature than it ever suffered from the wreck of ancient science." (WTM I, 474-76.) 243. Dec 13 Early in the morning, before 3:00, STC has a complex : nightmare in which he dreams first that he is lost in the i corridors of Christ's Hospital, then chased by a harlot, then sitting "on a broad open plain of rubbish with rails,": then wandering through streets, then "turning up a Lane with wall and magnificent Trees...." He then attempts to wake up, and has a terrible struggle doing it, his dream reflecting the struggle. (CN I #1726.) 244. Dec 14 RS writes from Keswick to Richard Duppa: Plans to iremain in the north indefinitely. The postponement of the !literary history. The printing of Madoc. The recent visit! |of Hazlitt: his portraits of STC, W. Hblcroft's discovery of "prophetic portraits of himself and Coleridge among the !damned in your Michael Angelo." RS has "found out a more iflattering antetype of Coleridge's face in Duns Scotus." I Invitation to Duppa to visit Keswick: "Coleridge and our 57stc and Derwent arrived Grasmere Dec 20. (See 1803:248.)............. ( ................. - ................. (1803) 381 i . I lakes and mountains are worth a longer journey." Weather |severe. (CS II, 237-39.) !245. [1803, Dec 18 or 19] i [Due to the largeness of the handwriting and the des cription of the experience in the CN entry, STC appears to ihave taken opium or laudanum on this day. K. Coburn spec ulates that he may have taken a dose "to cover thei excite- ’ment and strain" of the preparation for the planned jour ney to Malta.] (CN I #1750 and n.) '246. Dec 19 In the morning, STC sees what seems to be his face reflected in his nightcap as it lies upon his bed. (CN I #1751.) 247. [1803, c Dec 19J STC writes SH [from Keswick]: Financial dealings with W; going to Grasmere probably tomorrow, with Derwent, Ipossibly leaving him there; thence to London, Bath, Exeter. (CL II #530.) 248. [1803,] Dec 20 (-Jan 14, 1804) STC leaves Keswick for Grasmere, London, and Malta on Dec 20; arrives Grasmere this day. Takes Derwent with him. (Remains at Grasmere till 1804 Jan 14; see 1804:14.) (CN I ;#1761.) 249. [1803, Dec 20-25] [In what K. Coburn refers to as "perhaps a burst of affectionate feeling after his departure from Keswick, 20 ;December, for Grasmere,"] STC writes of his wife "Sara Col- 'eridge amici...." (CN I #1754 and n.) 250. [1803, Dec 26-29] STC experiences a series of colored shapes and forms | which seem to change as he presses any part of himself. ![Evidently the experience is connected with the opium or laudanum he has been taking.] (CN I #1765.) 251. Dec 29 At Grasmere STC records a note about the nature of jdelirium. (CN I #1770.) (1803) 382 252. Dec 31 1:30 a.m.: STC performs an experiment with-rolled-up bits of paper, wick, tallow and soap for a candle. (CN I #1771.) Later in the day STC, W, visit Greenlhead Gill: view of Butterlip How and Langdale. Sitting on a sheepfold, W reads "Michael1 ' aloud. (CN I #1776-85.) 253. [1803, Dec-1804, Jan] STC records TP's London address. (CN I #1791.) 1804 1. [1804, early Jan, before Jan 141 STC writes SC from Grasmere:' Hazlitt's request for his pictures that he left at Keswickl; Hartley's portrait to go :to the W's, though STC would rather giye it to the Jacksons at Greta Hall. Sketch for STC's. face to go to SH. RS's ink and quills to be sent to Grasmere. STC's health "mid- ling." (CL II #531.) STC writes again to SC: Bad weather; STC's illness. Leaving tomorrow if possible for London to arrange for go ing abroad, then to Ottery St. Mary; Derwent's good behav ior. The night before STC was very ill. (CL II #532.) 2. Jan 1 STC, still at Grasmere, reads the poemis of Samuel Dan iel after midnight, and "blessed Sara at bed time...." (CN I #1793-94.) 3. Jan 4 [STC, W apparently walk around the Grasmere countryside on this day.] STC records that "in the highest & outermost of Grasmere Wordsworth read to me the second Part of his divine Self-biography— ," [which K. Coburn speculates, with de S&lincourt (PEEL xxxiv) may be Book II of The Prelude (CN I #1801n)J. (CN I #1801-07.) 4. Jan 5 STC observes the snow on the ground [at Grasmere] blown about by the wind; sees the wind raise clouds of snow up from the mountains (CN I #1809) . Also notices "the newly white-washed Church" (CN I #1811). Sees "the beautiful Ef fects of drifted Snow upon the mountains," and the color of the mountains. - He is on a walk with W, through Easedale to ^See CL II #531 nl, p. 1024 for further discussion. 383 ; (1804)384j ; 1 j ' ! | Lancrigg Terrace and on to Rydale (.CN I #1812).2 J 5. 11804, Jan 5-8J ; I i I STC writes a rather lengthy analysis of the character of RS, describing both the good and the bad in RS's charac ter, especially the bad in relation to himself, particular-; ly a verbal attack of RS's on SC. (CN I #1885 and n.)2 j 6 i ; 6. Jan 8 STC meditates on the fact that "Mrs [sic.] C. is to me ' j all strange"; he finds her cold. (CN I #1816.) This night "12 o-clock/nearer One," STC is ill. (CN I ! #1819.) He has a dream about Duns Scotus. (CN I #1824.) 7. Jan 9 RS writes to Grosvehor Charles Bedfords STC has gone to Devonshire for the winter. (CL II, 248-50.) STC writes in his journal [while apparently still in bed in the morning.]: Derwent is asleep in the other bed, Dorothy in the parlor— "o dear Dorothy— & O dear Sara Hutchinson." (CN I #1820.) [STC seems to have trouble with a skin allergy,] which he discusses at some length in this entry. (CN I #1826- 27.) In the evening he comments that he should have been reading Malthus all day, and wonders, "why did I neglect it?— Because, I ought not to have done this." (.CN I #1832.)4 8. Jan 10 STC awakens at 11:30 a.m. with "gouty suffocation." 2During these days at Grasmere, STC is taking one last : memorial survey of the countryside he loves. 3K. Coburn speculates that the attack may have been the! result of the fact tha!t RS was himself interested in SC be-! fore he married her sister. ^K. Coburn interprets, "Surely he means 'Because I ought to have done this,' the negative being a slip?" A minor point, but it seems to me that STC may have meant it as he wrote it, namely, tha!t 'I have neglected this read- !ing because I should not have neglected it,' there being a . < (1804) 385 j (CN. I #1833.) i i 9. Jan 11 STC receives a letter from RS (unpreserved). STC writes-to RS ,from Grasmere: STC's opinion of Mal- Ithus' Essay on Populations; the review is RS's responsibil ity. RS's letter; STC's poor health; still taking opium !"though I can not hitherto detect any pernicious Effect of it— " (but see 1803:144) . "If it be fair," he goes tomor row. "Something amiss" with Derwent. (CL II #533.) 10. [1804, Jan 11] STC again walks at Grasmere with W through the wintry day. (CN I #1836.) He spends a bad, "almost wholly sleep- ;less," night. (CL II #534. See also EY #200 on the ill ness of these days at Grasmere.) ill. [1804, Jan 11-13] [Probably on one of the last two nights at Grasmere before departure for London and Malta, STC, possibly going over the Scottish tour notes with DW, who is writing up her journal (CN I #1837n), writes a poem, possibly about an al der seen on that tour (see CN I #1489ff). (CN I #1837.) 12. [1804, Jan 12] After a sleepless night, STC falls asleep after break fast, dreams he is in Christ's Hospital visitng HD, who is bed-ridden. Awakens in sobs. Sleeps in the afternoon, awakens 10:00 p.m., then dozes, feels he cannot live. Restless night. (CL II #534.) : 13* STC's health is improved. He writes to RS: Bad health during the last two days? better today; his illness : in general. Encouragement to RS to finish Ma'doc, even to lay aside his history of Portugal to do it. Tell SC that Hartley should be taught to read; STC will write to him. i (CL II . #534.)....... special perverse pleasure in doing something that one is not supposed to do. 5"A copy of the 1803 edition of Malthus's Essay on Population, with marginal notes by Coleridge, is now in-.the !British Museum. Southey's review appeared in the1 Annual Review of 1803." (CL II #533 nl, p. 1027.) i "" ' — ' (1804) 386 i |l4. Jan 14 STC leaves Grasmere on Jan 14 at noon for London and Malta; walks to Kendal, "through mud and Drizzle, fog and stifling air...."® W accompanies him almost to Troutbeck. ;(CN II #1843,1849; CL II #535; EY #200.) i ®But see EY #200, where DW tells Mrs. Thomas Clarkson ■that STC left "on a fine sunny morning.1 ! APPENDIX ;THE VISITS OF COTTLE AND HAZLITT TO STOWEY AND ALFOXDEN AND I THE PROBLEM OF THE TRIPS TO LYNMOUTH May-June, 1798 Reed does an excellent job of discussing this complex matter: "The dating of the visit which Cottle paid to Al- : !foxden during this period is made difficult by the publish er's own ambiguous comments. He several times mentions visits to Alfoxden, but the number of the visits is left unclear. Twice he remarks (Reminiscences 174, 182) that !'a visit to Mr. Coleridge' at Stowey 'had been the means of; my introduction to Mr. Wordsworth,' although it is hard to believe that W and Cottle could have escaped meeting some how during the poets' visit in Bristol Aug-Sept 1795, and ithe two were certainly acquainted by Jan 1796 (EL 149? see ■Moorman I, 271; [1796:9j). The publisher states in one instance that this visit occasioned W's reading of his 'Lyrical Pieces,' and that he departed leaving W still ob- I jectirig to Cottle's urgings that the poet publish. Cottle ; elsewhere ( Reminiscences 174-7 8) mentions invitations for ...........387............................. - ............................. 388.... j i i : ‘ I 'another, visit,' and quotes three letters of spring 1798 | j ■ - ’ . . 1 from W and STC in which such invitations occur. 'In conse-i ■ ; i quence of these conjoint invitations,he reports, 'I spent! a week...at Allfoxden [sicj house'; it was during this vis it that final plans were made for LB. Lastly, Cottle men tions ( Reminiscences 182) an occasion when 'soon after our acquaintance had commenced, Mr. W. happened to be in Bris tol, and asked me to spend a day or two with him at Allfox-i' den.' The publisher 'consented, and drove him down in a gig.' This was the visit that was the occasion of the !de- bacle' of the bread and lettuce dinner. "Sorting out the various confusions in these remarks would require rather more space than the matters justify, but it can be noted that, without constituting a remarkably unusual example of Cottle's unreliability, all the remarks could refer to a single visit. In any case, the Cottle visit of May 1798 can have been the only occasion when plans were laid for LB, and even Cottle is unlikely to have! erred basically about a related trip to Linton and else where. Nor can there be much doubt that the May visit was describable at least in general terms as having been one of 'a week' in length. Only one other occasion is known when , W may have 'happened to be in Bristol' and invited Cottle down for 'a day or two' when STC was at Nether Stowey, W at ;Alfoxden, and lettuce in good fettle— late Sept-early Oct 1 1797; but even in this case the only clue is W's comment j -............................. - ......- 389' | i . j I that he planned to be in Bristol within three weeks (see EL ! i :172; STCL I, 345-46). The only remote hint of a visit by !Cottle other than that of May is the unlikely one of the enigmatic entries in DWJ for 3, 4, 5 Feb 1798 [see 1798; j 36n. And I may add, the even less likely one of shortly after July 14, 1797 (see 1797:70 and n; CottlesRec I, 274- 77).] "STC wrote Cottle on a Monday which must have been, as Griggs shows, either 28 May or 4 June, that he had walked to Linton the day after Cottle left and returned on . ! ’Saturday1 (STCL I, 411, 413) . Even had STC not lingered a day in Linton— and the evidence implies that he did (see below and Margoliouth N & Q 353)— Cottle would have had to depart 24 May if STC were to write to the publisher on 28 May after having made such a trip. There is certainly no information that implies— indeed, since W was in Bristol, it is most unlikely— that Cottle came before W's return, much less that so many events involving the author of The Malvern Hills and later remembered by him as parts of a week's visit could in reality have been compressed into two days' time, no matter how foggy his later recollections tended to be. Thus STC's letter was probably written 4 June, and Margoliouth's conjecture that Cottle's departure !took place on 30 May is probably correct. It seems quite I possible that Cottle drove W down in his gig on 22 May, and! came as a result of personal urgings from W, while the ;.... -..... - 390 !latter was in Bristol, which supplemented earlier written linvitations from him and STC. If Cottle did not come with jW, he probably arrived soon after him. "STC's trip to Linton just after Cottle's departure would almost certainly date, of course, 31 May-2 June. Hazlitt, however, recalls in 'My First Acquaintance' that his- departure from Nether Stowey on 10 June, was a 'day or ;two' after his return from his tour to Linton with STC and Chester. One is faced with the heed to decide whether Haz- ;litt erred by over a week about the time of his own walking ;tour, or whether STC in fact made three separate trips to Linton and back between 22 May and 9 June— two, perhaps all three, walking trips of not less than three days' duration — the first with W and Cottle and the last with Hazlitt and Chester. Certainly Hazlitt's description (as well as Cot tle's) quite precludes any possibility that the Hazlitt and Cottle walking trips were one and the same; it is hard also to believe that STC would have gone off on such excursions, the first time with Cottle, the second time perhaps alone, leaving Hazlitt behind twice, or that Hazlitt would have neglected reporting two walking tours had he taken two. The matter cannot be settled on the basis of present evi dence. If one assumes that Hazlitt would not have used the phrase 'a day or two' to describe a period of over a week, even when remembering the events many years after, one is obliged to infer that STC did in fact make three trips, and r- .......................... ■ . 391 |that the three-day tour with Hazlitt began about 5 or 6 j I ' * ■ ;June and ended about 8 or 9 June. "The date of the famous and ridiculous dinner of bread and lettuce likewise remains impossible to establish jwith certainty. Mrs. Moorman's supposition (Moorman I, 396) that the fiasco took place this May is probably the I best that can be made; but it is curious that neither Haz- i litt hor Cottle ever mentions the other in connection with :any part of his narrative. There is, however, no case in which any of their statements are finally in conflict." !(MRWC 318-20, Appendix VIII.) The only comment I have to add to this very thorough : discussion is that I would more readily believe Hazlitt than Cottle, if it came to choosing between them. It would .relieve the situation a great deal if it could be shown that Cottle's visit and related trip to Lynton occurred at ■another time, say back in late Sept-early Oct 1797, when W : was possibly in Bristol, or at one of the! other times when Cottle may have visited (see above). This cannot, unfor tunately, be definitely shown, but it can be pointed out l ; that the key Cottle statement that fixes the date of this visit and trip in May of 1798 is the fact that he links the; trip to Lynton with final discussion about LB. It is pos sible (though there is no evidence for it) that the plans for LB-were made entirely by mail, or by a visit of W and/ or STC to Bristol (see 1798:116, 118, 128), and that Cottle,! .................................. 392 i jas usual, later confused the issue. All of the events in volving Cottle mentioned 1798:121 could thus have occurred iat another time. Perhaps this conjecture merely serves to muddy the waters further, but it would clarify things if new evidence were to show it to be true. 393 For the bibliography, see the List of Abbreviations, p. vi.
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